Book burnings and bannings - when you know you're on the wrong side of history.
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Even if it feels like victory, it'd be such an empty echo of the real thing. No wonder it becomes stale...
Most people don't realise how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of a culture was solely related to how many librarians it contained. Possibly a slight overstatement, but a culture that doesn't value its librarians doesn't value ideas and without ideas, well, where are we?