The idea of large bookshelves with old books being filled with useful knowledge has totally gone, now that we have the internet, search engines, AI, technological change, and more focus on the scientific method. When you see these in historic houses, for example, you know it's all filled with crap you'd never read.Libraries are also totally obsolete and have fully transformed into a tentacle of the bureaucratic nanny mental health state. The books are no longer the primary reason for their existence and they don't promote silence or study. They exist as community centres of 'hubs' which provide or signpost the dregs of society towards services for people that refuse or are too low IQ to adapt to 21st century society by learning to use the internet or getting jobs.As part of the above, the architecture of these buildings changes as well. My old university's main library used to be a small, pokey building with narrow corridors and space between book shelves, and desks in nooks and crannies. It wasn't an ancient building, just a British 60s or 70s run down place, but it had its charm and the look kept out normies. But it was replaced by a modern building with huge spaces (both floor plan and vertically). It felt a bit like an airport, a place you were always on the verge of leaving.It seems like the Great Awakening has made all but the biggest establishment sycophants aware that mainstream publishing is filled with retarded women. But even before that, it seems like cutting edge written word discourse, that would've been in newspapers in the past, has gone from forums to blogs to YouTube videoessays. There is still opportunity but acting for permission isn't the way.I think one bright spot for /lit/ types is that even I, as a STEMtard who reads books amateurishly, I think that the rise of AI text has made the idea of getting a liberal arts degree more appealing. It's too late for me but I can see the appeal of those, and liberal arts colleges, now. The AI and outsourced third worlders can do technical crap and, now that Trump failed to dislodge the Cathedral (by not defining universities; by still clearly caring about mainstream media; by not purging government employees), it seems inevitable that wordcel dominance isn't going away.
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>>25470583Most of those libraries are reference libraries which means they're basically a search engine/ database themselves. They're not "fun" or "discovery" libraries they're something like The United States Codes. Getting replaced by a search engine isn't that big of a tragedy here.
>>25470583The task of humanity will increasingly be not be to preserve knowledge but to select it. We're already preserving more than enough already, most of it junk. The task will be to actually condense it into a collection of texts worth reading.People are drawn to texts with hermeneutic depth, texts they can live with for long periods of time. Its a great power of the Bible and other holy texts. Despite all its great advancements, what kind of text does scientific modernism have to offer that does the same thing? We need a new De Rerum Natura.
