Why Read Old Books?
17th May 2021
Under “progressivism,” anything old is suspect and if there is the slightest hint of incorrect thinking about it, then it certainly must be denounced if not destroyed.
Progressives believe that progress is inevitable; so long as things are allowed to change, time T+1 will inevitably be better than time T.
Hence, for any time T there was a time T-1 that represents Less Progress and is ipso facto Less Good. So the older something is, the less progress it embodies, and this is the very definition of inferiority.
May 18th, 2021 at 17:22
The Progressives (TM) have not figured out how to take old books in print away from those who own them – yet.