Posted on 11/18/2021 8:31:43 PM PST by Noumenon
“The whole apparatus for spreading knowledge, the schools and the press, wireless and cinema, will be used exclusively to spread those views which, whether true or false, will strengthen the belief in the rightness of the decisions taken by the authority; and all information that might cause doubt or hesitation will be withheld.”Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (1944)
I just received a remarkable invitation to an upcoming lecture series entitled, “Weeding out Neutrality,” the advertised speakers being “activist librarians” who aim to destroy “old myths about libraries and neutrality” so they can curate collections that are openly and purposefully one-sided.
As the organizers of the lecture series put it, “a growing corps of activist librarians . . . . hope to transform our understanding of libraries and the role they play in destroying unjust and unfair systems.” If you think that a library is a place you go to study all sides of a question and form your own opinion, these activist librarians have some news for you!
In the libraries of tomorrow, your opinions will be formed by the hidden hand of activist librarians who weed out all books that contradict the party line. The totalitarian tool that Hayek warned against is now being debated, and will very soon be used, in what many believe is the most conservative public university in the United States.
To use the language of CRT, librarians must “weed out neutrality” because any library that is not actively anti-racist is a racist library. Any library that suffers its shelves to be soiled by books that argue all sides of the question is a racist library because neutrality, objectivity, and impartiality are just slogans of hate that rationalize “unjust and unfair systems.”
By extension, we must suppose that any library that is not actively anti-white is a white library, any library that is not actively anti-capitalist is a capitalist library, any library that is not actively anti-Christian is a Christian library, etc., etc., etc.
Here Hayek reduces the theory of this new library science to a single line. Indeed, Hayek’s line will serve as the motto of the general and universal Scientific Revolution of the Twenty-First Century.
“The probable effect on the people’s loyalty to the system becomes the only criterion for deciding whether a particular piece of information is to be published or suppressed.”*
* Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1944), chap. 11.
The alt-far-left don’t just want to ‘weed’ our libraries, they want to ‘seed’ them too, with content adults shouldn’t see let alone the children being targeted. Then again Democrats always do what they accuse people on the right of doing, no matter how disturbing. I saw an article on how, “Joe Biden Bizarrely Strokes Little Boy’s Body and Face During Bill Signing: “Meet me after this, I can show you around the White House” [VIDEO]”, and you can give that a look at 100PercentFedUp. Knowing the left does that, reconsider the situation of Roy Moore. They also tried that with Trump and Scott Baio too. The left have gotten their way for decades, since MSM, government schools, the Democrat Party and colleges were infiltrated by communists. It won’t change until we stop allowing it to occur.
The myth is that Nazis are on the Right. That word if short for National SOCIALIST, and all socialists are on the Left. Global Socialists are communists. Those two groups fought for control of Germany and one had to lose. In fact, the German Communist Party flag from that time is used today by ANTIFA.
I didn’t use my card for so long it expired. I had to physically go in to get a replacement. I haven’t used it since, despite looking at the catalog AND being able to get books digitally delivered to my devices. Why? I can find almost everything I want online, for free. It isn’t difficult when you are determined.
The leftists weeded libraries a long time ago. The American Library association is as far left as you can get and ruined libraries back 25 to 30 years ago.
They also will not tell you what books your children borrow... privileged information... as if they were something more than overeducated book shelves.
I have supported private subscription Libraries for a whole. Important to have and preserve our heritage
Getting the librarians fired is the thing. We had to relatively conservative ones donevout of jobs and now leftists crawl. Best now to support closing or privatizing
Probably should have capitalized it :)
Aren’t local libraries funded by the taxpayers of that town?
Should have told the harpy “I pay your salary!’’.
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