The death of civilisation

​I am a published author and a voracious reader. So, it is with great dismay I read that the National Library of New Zealand is in the process of culling another half million books from their shelves. These are all books on the history, culture and knowledge of the Western world. These books are recorded memories of our civilization that the Commissars of the National Library have seen fit to pulp. This has been going on for years. In 2020 alone there were 600,000 books removed. These books are our history, our ethics, our morality, our philosophy. They are the record of what made us and our civilization great.
The librarians say they are shifting their “focus” onto e-books and a narrower range of ‘approved’ titles. It’s due to lack of space, they say. But it isn’t about lack of space if the only books being removed are from some of the world’s most important thinkers, visionaries, philosophers and architects of Western Civilisation. This is about historical erasure.
And what is replacing these lost books? Approved books reinforcing state narrative, books on identity politics, racial idolatry, indoctrination disguised as education. The National Library claims it wants to prioritise New Zealand published books. So, they are destroying international and irreplaceable books to make room for the ‘new titles’ that will fit in with the present narrative. And they think it’s somehow alright?
This is culture control as practiced by communist states, this replacing of diverse knowledge with state-controlled information. We have returned to a time when inquiry is seen as protest and needs to be censored, where truth is revolutionary and where our libraries are being turned against us.
George Orwell warned us in 1984: “The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.”