Umberto Eco’s Antilibrary: Why Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones

“It is our knowledge — the things we are sure of — that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning,” Lincoln Steffens wrote in his beautiful 1925 essay. Piercingly true as this may be, we’ve known at least since Plato’s famous Allegory of the Cave that “most people are not just comfortable in their ignorance, but hostile to anyone who points it out.” — This explains the comments war on the Internet.

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