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Archival in a Fascist regime (lemmy.world)

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Now that the fascists have taken over, what books, academic studies, and pieces of knowledge should take priority in personal/private archival? I'm thinking about what happened in Nazi Germany, especially with the burning of the Institute for Sexual Science(Institut für Sexualwissenschaft) and what was lost completely in the burnings.

Some of us should consider saving stuff digitally or physically. Redundancies will help preserve stuff.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

As a syncretic Luciferian currently, I'd say esoteric and occult books/grimoires as well. Everything that's deemed "demonic" by christianity should be safely archived.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Which ones do you think are of most importance? This fascist regime is likely to be christofascist, so that's a valid concern. Nag Hammadi library with its heretical gnostic texts for example is likely to be preserved given it has copies in other countries.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

There are many, many authors and books that hold importance for esoteric and occult studies and practices.

An example that comes to mind are the books written by Anton LaVey, especially the The Satanic Bible. As he was american, so are his books' first copies from, so a greater risk of those copies being seized or something.

While this risk wouldn't be the same for all corpora written by Aleister Crowley, as he was English so the first copies aren't at american soil (if I guessed correctly), I'm not sure how far a christotyrannical regime would go for "serving God's will".

So, in summary, I'd say everything should be archived. Both physically and digitally. It's worth mentioning how Internet Archive is being attacked: the Internet Archive holds many digital copies of important esoteric and occult knowledge as well. If Internet Archive goes permanently down, it'd ripple to other sites such as sacred-texts.