Those misguided souls who herald the age of the internet and "smart" phone as a positive development for mankind have missed one obvious truth: if these inventions were supposed to help make humans smarter would we have not seen that result by now? After all, having a toy computer in one’s pocket allegedly gives a person access to the entire sum of human knowledge in just a few touches on the screen. Surely this will lead to universal enlightenment!
Far from it. What we have seen instead is a steady growth of stupidity, perhaps no more obvious with the current supporters of an orange skinned man so incapable of telling the truth that a reasonable person would not trust his directions to find a restroom in a public building. Instead of using their eye-phones to verify the foul utterances of the orange skinned man, his followers use the devices to find even more spurious postings that support his lies. Thus the tools supposedly created to advance human development are the main contributors to its decline.
And what have American libraries done to counter this vile electronic influence? You would think the custodians of the codex would do everything possible to promote print to patrons pursuing potent portions of truth. Alas, such is not the case. The information scientists in charge of our country’s book repositories are destroying their physical collections and advising their customers to consult the screens for answers. Active partners in dumbing down the demographic, biblioposers who claim to love the book while discouraging its use bear a huge portion of the responsibility for the current virus of stupidity among our fellow citizens. Here at True Archives we say to these vandals of our printed heritage, "Turn those books over to the archives if you don't want to dirty your hands with them any longer!"
