Blacks are being used as a weapon against us
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in order to change the past, you need to be able to change the books. before, that means burning the old books and publishing new books.
when all the books are now digital, and no one goes to the library anymore, what does that mean for history? (rhetorical question)
It's scary because there is already huge censorship in the vast digital libraries of the ebook stores. No one has the balls to just let books exist when curation isn't as big of deal like in a physical place like a library
I've said 1984 warned us about this so many times that I'll finally change the script a bit.
ahem
Fahrenheit 451 warned us about this
I think Brave New World might be even closer. No need to burn books when most of the plebs aren't even interested in reading.
Not to mention the drugs and culture of casual sex