ALAN writes:

One day at the library, I happened by chance to see a new book about Tammy Wynette.  It caught my eye because I enjoyed some of her songs long years ago.  She made the mistake of trying to balance too many things: Marriage(s), homemaking, and a professional career.  But to some extent she was a traditionalist-minded woman. “Stand By Your Man” was not exactly an ode to feminism. Late in her life, she was not favorably impressed by contemporary music and wondered what had become of the classic, prettier, more restrained country-western music she had heard and grown to love when she was growing up and for some years after.

I picked up the book on the naive expectation that it was about Tammy Wynette. I was wrong. On one level, it may be that.  But on another and more brazen level, it is a screed using her life and career as a pretext for helping to advance revolutionary ideology and vocabulary.

I opened the book to read the blurb about the author.  I had a good laugh when I read that Treacy Easton “are a PhD student in critical disability studies…”  Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!  Isn’t that a knee-slapper?  “They”– one writer — “are a PhD student…..”

Since when can one be two or more? Did I miss a discovery in elementary mathematics?  Of course one writer cannot be two or more people. One person cannot be “they”. My parents and grandparents knew that. But they did not have the burden of being brainwashed.

In fact they were so un-brainwashed that they never imagined any person could be “they”.  In the old days, people who claimed to be somebody in addition to or other than who they were, or multiple people, were said to be “suffering” from some kind of “psychological disorder”.  Well, excuse me, but in plain English they often were liars …. and they still are.

Who among us in the 1950s could have imagined that the day would come when a writer who claims to be “they” would be published by a university press and then have “their” book displayed and celebrated in public libraries?

The author identifies themselves (sic) as “queer” and “trans”. Apparently we are to believe that such people can choose an identity or multiple simultaneous identities at whim. Isn’t that lovely? How fluid. How flexible. Rodgers and Hart would have to write a new song: Modern women are no longer “Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered”.  Now they are “Inane, Idiotic, and Imbecilic”.

It would be hard to calculate the amount of drivel printed in recent decades about entertainers like Tammy Wynette and Karen Carpenter and carefully crafted to accommodate the pretensions and absurdities of Leftist ideology.  But books by one-author “theys” are as welcome as drag queens to American libraries that agreed years ago to accommodate nonsensical non-words like “parenting” into their book catalogs and category headings.  (If “parenting” is a legitimate word, then so must be “childing”, “paintering”, and “plumbering”.  Join the fun: Make up your own nonsense-words.)

Doubtless there are entire series of such books.  They are just one more variation on the long march through the institutions whose ultimate goal is the sinking of Western Civilization.  Whose side are today’s publishers, promoters, and libraries on, do you think?

Libraries in the New World Order function not as repositories for the best that has been thought and written, but as validation agencies for revolutionary propaganda, ideology and vocabulary. Visit any big-city library to see proof.

— Comments —

Dianne writes:

I always appreciate Alan. 👍

P.K. writes:

As always I enjoy Alan’s columns. Thank you for giving him a “safe space” 😉 to share his thoughts. In his latest piece on libraries, he ends with: “Libraries in the New World Order function not as repositories for the best that has been thought and written, but as validation agencies for revolutionary propaganda, ideology and vocabulary. Visit any big-city library to see proof.”

Unfortunately I can assure him that this is not a big-city issue. Small libraries are just as prone to the problem – if not more so. Many of the people working in these libraries have no training and lack confidence in their ability to choose books. They pick what is advertised, what critics say the readers will love, and take the advice of librarians on social media who have been indoctrinated in the belief that all ideas are equally valid and must be made freely available in the library.

In a way it is the patrons’ fault, too. They do not ask for the best that has been thought and written. They want the “mafia romance” story so they can imagine getting a rough, violent man who has no respect for them to say he loves them. They want the “dark fantasy” where a demon humiliates the lovestruck heroine – who we are assured is a ‘woman who can take care of herself’ – by making her crawl across glass before pleasuring him. They want the stories of serial killer maids who are the ‘good guys’. And so on. And they want these things because they are advertised on TikTok by influencers or because the professional reviewers give these types of books accolades. The so-called ‘clean’ books – the Amish bonnet-rippers, the endless series of neighbors and relatives romances that get turned into Hallmark movies, and the ‘historical’ mysteries that espouse 21st century thinking – are just as vapid, though less evil.

I don’t know if there’s an answer to the problem. I certainly don’t have one.

Laura writes:

Yikes, scary stuff.

Reading is not always a good thing.

Johanna writes:

I’ve noticed the hard left turn of libraries for quite some time now, very obvious on first entering them by by the scads of facial piercings and unnatural hair colors on employees behind the desks. Long before that though, I thought the removal of fines by their automatic re- newel of materials was a bad idea because of its cancellation of personal responsibility. After that, they reversed the placement of non-fiction and fiction. All fiction moved to the first floor and non-fiction to the second. Sometimes they speak the truth without realizing it.

Laura writes:

Removal of fines? Never heard of that!

I mostly use my local library for its inter-library loan program. I can order books from colleges and libraries all over the state and the librarians really like digging things up. I am so grateful to them for their help.

As for the collections in the library, I mostly keep my eyes to myself. Some of the stuff is shocking. Vulgar, ugly and political.

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