The Sweet Taste of Validation

Remember the last time you won an argument with your spouse and achieved validation with those elusive words “You were right”?

Of course you don’t! NO one wins those domestic arguments with such an emphathic conclusion! (I speak here as a 44 year veteran of domestic bliss.) However, we are delighted to report a published validation for our never-ending tirades against Information Scientists as they destroy libraries, books, and deep reading in these benighted times.

The latest issue of the New Left Review contains this insightful article by Rebecca Lossin exposing the biblioposers for their situational (yet superficial) embrace of the printed word only when it suits their purpose. Lossin points out precisely how “e-books” are not books at all, and how deep reading habits disappear in a world where print is rendered into zeros and ones. The author presents her argument in a reasoned, academic essay that, in comparison to our own sarcastic postings on this blog, is like the quality of Chateaubriand to a hotdog.

Here at True Archives we might smugly point to such a scholarly treatise to say “I told you so,” but we are above such self-congratulatory posturing. After all, a rare taste of validation is one to be savored more than slathered.