Sadly, I don’t see much of a future for genuine intellectualism in these United States, at least not in the near term. The culture simply won’t sustain it anymore - between the social atomisation and the anti-whitism and the long-term progressive grip on culture creation, there’s nothing there to encourage genuinely intelligent approaches to ideas, whether we’re talking about their creation, comprehension, or dissemination. Sadly, our library system won’t be of any help. What was once a valuable resource for helping low-income-but-high-IQ young men overcome barriers to entry are now basically just holding pens for homeless people to watch porn all day while being overseen by pink-haired activists with master’s degrees in library science. The dissident Right - the only folks who are really, consistently playing with ideas, are tiny in comparison to society at large. But like the bookleggers in A Canticle for Leibowitz, it may be up to us to keep the flame alive until the next cycle begins.
https://neociceroniantimes.substack.com/p/on-reading-and-its-discontents
