Opus 2025-517: Get the Book Too

We are reading more and more on our electronic devices like Kindle, iPads, computers, and there’re probably many others that I’m not thinking about.  That in itself, I don’t think is a big problem because you’re still reading.  I think though that it might be good when you read a book that speaks to you, seems controversial or might have information that someday the 1984 Committee will not want you to have, that you go out of your way to get it in hard copy and put it in your library you where you will have it.  You might even want to hide it because the Committee has long arms.  I’ve already seen how things are quietly edited with nobody making a big fuss about it.  I think I’ve already mentioned such things as the Hardy boys, the book written by William Wilberforce and even my hymnal getting edited without letting me know.  So I think it’s a good idea to get that hard copy and put it someplace where Amazon or Big Brother can’t get  hold of it.

Now if you’re reading science fiction or spy novels or anything like that and you enjoy them and want to get a hard copy that’s fine but it’s not all that necessary.  Although they probably will go back and edit some of these to make them more politically correct and more woke, it won’t affect your destiny or your understanding of the world around you.

I recently bought a copy of 1984.  I had read it on my Kindle and mysteriously it was removed without my knowledge.  They even got the mobi file I had on my computer.  The only reason I know I really read it was that I had put my notes in a file with a title the AI did not recognize.  This is the kind of thing we’re up against.  So if you find a book, whether it’s a reference or something controversial, see if you can get a hard copy and put it someplace where you’ll know where it is.  It might fit well in the back of your freezer.  You don’t need to actually read it itself, unless it disappears from the electronic media or is edited out of recognition.

This would go for things like the Bible, the Federalist Papers, philosophers and historians, just about anything that might be important to help learn to be a thoughtful citizen.

For that matter, it would also be good to have a copy of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.  Who knows what they’ll do with that if given the chance.

homo unius libri