Tuesday, June 05, 2018
Where are the librarians when you need them?
Convective thought, spawned by mixing the mummy wrap papyrus with the oddness of the Tower of Babel.
The old and new testaments are unusable because the documents weren't handled by a proper archiver or librarian.
Both of the books were gathered many centuries after the manuscripts were written. If there was any coherence in the original stories, it was long gone by then. Nobody bothered to link them, nobody tried to disentangle thousands of inversions like the Tower. (God busted up the Tower for proper Natural Law reasons, but the writer takes Satan's side so we blindly go with Satan instead of God.)
In later centuries librarians developed complex skills and systems of association, aided by the human talents of the librarian. A good library was like a well-synced brain, packed with billions of memories that can be accessed quickly and accurately when needed.
After the Deepstate Coup in 1946, librarians gradually lost their memory-storage mission and became nothing more than enforcers of orthodoxy. They refused to stock heretical books and emitted nothing but Fashionable Doctrine when asked.
The skills gap exploded when the web was developed. We suddenly had trillions instead of billions, but still no librarian.
Google was able to conquer the world by filling the gap. Google copied and metaphorized all the traditional skills of a human librarian, and shaped the results to commercial and governmental purposes.
We still don't have OBJECTIVE librarians. The city library has abandoned its mission, and Google feeds us a carefully crafted set of distortions.
Labels: Answered and unnecessarily asked
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