Editor’s Note: The following essay originally appeared in Abigail Shrier’s substack newsletter The Truth Fairy on March 3. Although it is the policy of LifeSiteNews to write “same-sex ‘marriage’” rather than “same-sex marriage,” in the case of this particular article LifeSite has left the phrase “gay marriage” as it was written by the author.
March 8, 2021 (The Truth Fairy) – If you wanted to eliminate disfavored ideas from a society, you’d begin by aggregating most of the world’s books onto a single platform. You’d hope to create a global network of gargantuan warehouses, automated to allow next-day fulfillment of customer desires. If you were wildly successful, your company might one day control five sixths of U.S. book sales and generate a market capitalization that rivals the GDP of Canada.
If you also delivered groceries, clothing, and hardware during a pandemic, and hosted businesses’ websites, too—you might become so integral to people’s lives, they would be hard-pressed to quit you. Customers spoiled by the miracle of having milk and toilet paper delivered same-day to their door would be disinclined to protest as you began eliminating books, especially if it was just a few at a time. You’d have become the hand that feeds them; they’d
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