In the early 80s a university near me began purging history books that would counter their coming narrative. I bought some leather bound official histories about the revolution in Russia for pennies. Rare inside stories that countered the official narrative. A friend and I saw the pile and after looking at the titles, said, "Oh look.......a book burning."
I'm convinced the whole purpose of archival institutions is to make us trust enough to put all the info in one place so they can eventually destroy it easily.
Goes all the way back to that Indiana Jones programming: "It belongs in a museum!"
I've read Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry and it's sequel to my children for homeschool. They are are stories about newly freed slaves that continue to farm the previous slave-owner's land in exchange for a place to live and part of the crop's proceeds (with cheating involved.) The black children have segregated buses and schools, and get all the worn-out hand-me-down, falling apart school books from the white schools. Black children get accused of crimes that privileged white teens commit.
Time to dumpster dive, and I am not kidding. I knew a priest who retrieved a bunch of valuable books tossed by the seminary from the dumpster!
I also saw some old books when I was recycling cardboard, and yes I climbed in and got the ones I saw. At least it was a recycling dumpster not a garbage dumpster!
Libraries in my area seemed to purge the classics in the late 90's so I got a ton of books for very low cost or free. I stopped going to libraries and focused on building my own for my homeschooled kids.
Going to library sales, I noticed that brand new books were being sold off. Seemed like a money laundering scam or just plain racket, buy overpriced books under contract from the publisher than sell them off for pennies.
Digitalization of classics has made things easier to get a hold of early works, since they are post-copyright. I can get the entire G.H. Henty historical adventure series in epub in one go vs. trying to find the old copies and store them on book shelves. There's something about having a book in your hand to read, but also something about having an entire series available on a digital reader (I like the Kobe ones vs. kindle). I like both options.
Yes! GA Henty FTW! We went to various old lists of classics and hunted through archive.org, project Gutenberg, and free ebook sites to find what we could. Then we keep an eye out on the used book sites.
The first two are fluff, the last one, iirc, is a Newberry award winner and should be in the reading before 6th grade. All Newberry award winning books I've seen in my life are worthwhile- find them wherever you can and read them with your kids no matter what school they're in.
But if they're still in public school, for the love and safety of their very souls, get them out! Do whatever you can, apologize to your parents, find other families to work with, and did the responsibility, it's easier than they want you to think. First grade needs no more than 1 hour of book learning each day, which increases 15-20 min/day each grade. The rest is day care and indoctrination! There's no socialization, they're not allowed to talk, they are allowed to get bullied and abused though. Save them!
I have books that are decades old. In fact, when I lived in So CA the neighborhood kids would come to my house when they needed a book for school projects or homework versus the school library. Yes, they take up room. But I have never thrown a book away - even my college textbooks. I noticed the process of library purges even in the late nineties and I grabbed books even then. When the colleges started going digital I knew then there would be a push to control what people read, especially young people. If the electronic system goes down in some way, then what? Where is the depository of our collective history as Americans, as mankind? Without a written history, who shapes the future? My advise... everyone should be trying to get books - not for yourself, but for the future.
In the early 80s a university near me began purging history books that would counter their coming narrative. I bought some leather bound official histories about the revolution in Russia for pennies. Rare inside stories that countered the official narrative. A friend and I saw the pile and after looking at the titles, said, "Oh look.......a book burning."
I'm convinced the whole purpose of archival institutions is to make us trust enough to put all the info in one place so they can eventually destroy it easily.
Goes all the way back to that Indiana Jones programming: "It belongs in a museum!"
I've read Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry and it's sequel to my children for homeschool. They are are stories about newly freed slaves that continue to farm the previous slave-owner's land in exchange for a place to live and part of the crop's proceeds (with cheating involved.) The black children have segregated buses and schools, and get all the worn-out hand-me-down, falling apart school books from the white schools. Black children get accused of crimes that privileged white teens commit.
Time to dumpster dive, and I am not kidding. I knew a priest who retrieved a bunch of valuable books tossed by the seminary from the dumpster!
I also saw some old books when I was recycling cardboard, and yes I climbed in and got the ones I saw. At least it was a recycling dumpster not a garbage dumpster!
Chalk that up to a win for us due to the deluded marxist programming on climate.
Libraries in my area seemed to purge the classics in the late 90's so I got a ton of books for very low cost or free. I stopped going to libraries and focused on building my own for my homeschooled kids.
Going to library sales, I noticed that brand new books were being sold off. Seemed like a money laundering scam or just plain racket, buy overpriced books under contract from the publisher than sell them off for pennies.
Digitalization of classics has made things easier to get a hold of early works, since they are post-copyright. I can get the entire G.H. Henty historical adventure series in epub in one go vs. trying to find the old copies and store them on book shelves. There's something about having a book in your hand to read, but also something about having an entire series available on a digital reader (I like the Kobe ones vs. kindle). I like both options.
Yes! GA Henty FTW! We went to various old lists of classics and hunted through archive.org, project Gutenberg, and free ebook sites to find what we could. Then we keep an eye out on the used book sites.
The first two are fluff, the last one, iirc, is a Newberry award winner and should be in the reading before 6th grade. All Newberry award winning books I've seen in my life are worthwhile- find them wherever you can and read them with your kids no matter what school they're in.
But if they're still in public school, for the love and safety of their very souls, get them out! Do whatever you can, apologize to your parents, find other families to work with, and did the responsibility, it's easier than they want you to think. First grade needs no more than 1 hour of book learning each day, which increases 15-20 min/day each grade. The rest is day care and indoctrination! There's no socialization, they're not allowed to talk, they are allowed to get bullied and abused though. Save them!
Do we all remember how Amazon Kindle deleted everyone's PURCHASED COPIES of George Orwell's 1984?
One of the most ironic things ever
I have books that are decades old. In fact, when I lived in So CA the neighborhood kids would come to my house when they needed a book for school projects or homework versus the school library. Yes, they take up room. But I have never thrown a book away - even my college textbooks. I noticed the process of library purges even in the late nineties and I grabbed books even then. When the colleges started going digital I knew then there would be a push to control what people read, especially young people. If the electronic system goes down in some way, then what? Where is the depository of our collective history as Americans, as mankind? Without a written history, who shapes the future? My advise... everyone should be trying to get books - not for yourself, but for the future.
Purging history