I for one am gathering physical books. Mainly on history and philosophy, but also on politics, psychology, medical science, and dictionaries. Even a decent amount of fiction novels too.
Main goal is to build a repository of information and media from before they started rewriting everything and changing definitions.
I doubt the crackdown will be as extreme as, say, Fahrenheit 451. But I do think there will be a point where non mainstream books will be out of print and it will be encouraged to voluntarily destroy/turn in copies to "fight misinformation" or "fight hate" or something along those lines.
If you mean what can we do on a wider scale to push back? Write your own counter-arguments to debunk/reveal their bullshit. Circulate them by starting a podcast, youtube channel, or getting a job at some newspaper. Write books, talk to people in real life, just circulate the info.
Well this place was originally dedicated to ethics in gaming journalism, which is tangentially culture related. And I frequently see explicitly culture-war related posts and comments.
Maybe have a general thread here at a predetermined interval, once or twice a week, to gauge how well an organized collaborative effort would work, if it takes off we can try making a ruqqus or petitioning for another .win forum.
I know physical is the way to go, but even buying a hard-drive you can back stuff onto then finding .pdfs of tech manuals, Dr Seuss books and other actually learned material is also a way to go, just make sure to back it up.
Remember, after the fall of Rome, the catholic church at the time hoarded the knowledge of reading and writing, thus having a monopoly of learned materials during the dark age and because they were learned they also drew attention because local peasants who couldn't afford to read and write would get a priest to help with local trade deals, I think.
My analogy stands, when everyone around you becomes a peasant, you must be that priest, only then can you make a difference.
We were cleaning out my Dad's house and found a huge Webster's dictionary from the 1980's. Inclination would have been to throw it away, but didn't because of everything that's going on with rewriting of history. Also moved a couple of VCR's for old VHS copies of movies that are likely to be edited in the near future. Really need to get those into a digital format.
One thing we did toss I somewhat regret was the 1989 edition of the World Book Encyclopedia.
I'm thinking that one thing we can do is find some of the degenerate and anti-american race-baiting shit that is taught at universities and colleges and write our local allegedly conservative representatives about it.
Its a small thing but at least putting it out there helps get the balls rolling in the right direction.
The problem is a lot bigger than history. The best way you can stop this is to stop giving money to corporations that reward this. Stop engaging with sites that promote it. Give your time, energy & money to places that oppose it.
Suggest buying old books. Get some thumbdrives full of texts & pdfs (Project Gutenberg, et al). Buy books from contemporary academics that oppose this nonsense (e.g. Roger Scruton, Jordan Peterson, also figures such as Ed Dutton, Sean Last, etc.)
Lastly write your OWN journal. Solzhenitzyn's Gulag Archipelago is just his own personal notes and collections of stories from others who wrote their own accounts.
I for one am gathering physical books. Mainly on history and philosophy, but also on politics, psychology, medical science, and dictionaries. Even a decent amount of fiction novels too.
Main goal is to build a repository of information and media from before they started rewriting everything and changing definitions.
I doubt the crackdown will be as extreme as, say, Fahrenheit 451. But I do think there will be a point where non mainstream books will be out of print and it will be encouraged to voluntarily destroy/turn in copies to "fight misinformation" or "fight hate" or something along those lines.
If you mean what can we do on a wider scale to push back? Write your own counter-arguments to debunk/reveal their bullshit. Circulate them by starting a podcast, youtube channel, or getting a job at some newspaper. Write books, talk to people in real life, just circulate the info.
Well this place was originally dedicated to ethics in gaming journalism, which is tangentially culture related. And I frequently see explicitly culture-war related posts and comments.
Maybe have a general thread here at a predetermined interval, once or twice a week, to gauge how well an organized collaborative effort would work, if it takes off we can try making a ruqqus or petitioning for another .win forum.
I know physical is the way to go, but even buying a hard-drive you can back stuff onto then finding .pdfs of tech manuals, Dr Seuss books and other actually learned material is also a way to go, just make sure to back it up.
Remember, after the fall of Rome, the catholic church at the time hoarded the knowledge of reading and writing, thus having a monopoly of learned materials during the dark age and because they were learned they also drew attention because local peasants who couldn't afford to read and write would get a priest to help with local trade deals, I think. My analogy stands, when everyone around you becomes a peasant, you must be that priest, only then can you make a difference.
We were cleaning out my Dad's house and found a huge Webster's dictionary from the 1980's. Inclination would have been to throw it away, but didn't because of everything that's going on with rewriting of history. Also moved a couple of VCR's for old VHS copies of movies that are likely to be edited in the near future. Really need to get those into a digital format.
One thing we did toss I somewhat regret was the 1989 edition of the World Book Encyclopedia.
Fuck dude. That’s honestly a really good idea
I'm thinking that one thing we can do is find some of the degenerate and anti-american race-baiting shit that is taught at universities and colleges and write our local allegedly conservative representatives about it.
Its a small thing but at least putting it out there helps get the balls rolling in the right direction.
The problem is a lot bigger than history. The best way you can stop this is to stop giving money to corporations that reward this. Stop engaging with sites that promote it. Give your time, energy & money to places that oppose it.
Suggest buying old books. Get some thumbdrives full of texts & pdfs (Project Gutenberg, et al). Buy books from contemporary academics that oppose this nonsense (e.g. Roger Scruton, Jordan Peterson, also figures such as Ed Dutton, Sean Last, etc.)
Lastly write your OWN journal. Solzhenitzyn's Gulag Archipelago is just his own personal notes and collections of stories from others who wrote their own accounts.