[richard_rainbow]

I feel so strongly about this article. Someone I think maybe in 2015 postulated an idea of dead internet theory where stuff like this would be common.

I confess I am just a poor person who works for food at goodwill sorting. I have seen many things which are stirring to heart but one of those really cut down to it. I had a huge cart with seminal and very recent books about super important college text many of them of scientific nature and others of an important nature like bad affairs concerning publishing in college of all things.

I saw the some of the greatest knowledge the MIT library had to offer being simply recycled. I think they wanted it all to simply disappear. It was troubling to someone that it was at MIT. Down here in the worlds retail therapy dump it troubled me. The act of thinking anything of any sort is in itself has become taboo.

I wanted to save even just one book to read but we aren't allowed to even buy trash there. I cried about this after reviewing all these things in this article. I am profoundly disturbed. I can't even categorize what I feel anymore. It is an unbelievable experience and it isn't good. And it's just the first year of AI. No would could ever be fully prepared for this even if you never logged in to the net in your life. Because everyone else did and being drip fed outrage. I'm just beside myself.

[gavmor]

I hope you find this thought comforting: those books were merely holographic projections of the master copies which are safe. Copies are still being made. New editions are still being printed. In a sense, those books sent to recycling are overflowing the cup of knowledge. They're evidence not that the bottle has run low, but that the cup is too shallow--or else it's missing the rest of the champagne fountain[0]. I will admit it feels like a loss that these texts aren't run absolutely ragged--especially when one looks at the sorry state of home libraries across the world[1]. This is inspiration for me to re-read some of the quality tomes I've collected and not yet exhausted.

0. https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7013/6678160845_0a3d9e7fb3_b.j...

1. https://www.gapminder.org/dollar-street?topic=books&media=al...