[dogleash]

>post-modernism archival theory

I guess it makes sense such a thing would exist, but I wasn't expecting to hear that phrase.

Who chooses library science while wanting to be a bookburner? Seems like a recipe for absolutely miserable existence and life.

[Mezzie]

In context, post-modern archival theory makes sense. You just have to read it in context (that of the archival profession wrestling with their moral complicity in supporting some terrible governments in the mid 20th century) and contrast it with other views. Too many people don't do that.

It's more insidious than people going into the field hoping to censor. There's a large cohort that enters the field because they like helping people (as opposed to liking to organize information); those are the ones that end up here. They think they're helping or protecting people. They're also the loudest because the librarians working on things like open source repository tools prefer to bury their heads and ignore politics. Librarians are also really passive-aggressive and conflict-averse. It produces weird dynamics.