• 50:40 - 56:17
Guy Anderson | The Conspiracy ABCs of Obscure & Underreported Topics
Kindle, Digital Book Burning and Information Control
The branding of Amazon's "Kindle" is viewed as a symbolic reference to book burning and the centralization of information. Concerns are raised that digital platforms allow for the silent editing of texts and that the physical destruction of old books during digitization erases "out-of-place" historical facts. Listeners are encouraged to collect physical copies of old encyclopedias, atlases, and medical texts to preserve un-sanitized history.