It's funny how alarmed this person seems to be and how they take pains to point out how it's tied to Nazi imagery.<p>Dark Enlightenment, Cathedral, etc are ideas. Probably bad ideas but, ideas. You battle bad ideas by showing them to be bad and showing ones that are better. You don't cower in fear or spread alarm.<p>We live in the age of the internet; a giant library with whole shelves (wings even) of material on scary ideas like The Dark Enlightenment, Racial Superiority, etc. These ideas aren't going away. It's basically impossible to ban motivated people from discussing ideas because of encryption technology. All a ban will do is give a weapon to suppress ideas to the vast silent majority who see little value in defending ideas others have told them are bad.<p>If the author of this article has a problem with these ideas, then say so or at the very least point out links to refute them. Breathlessly implying they are intrinsically wrong does nothing but signal virtue to those who don't find the topic worth investigating deeper.
For a minute I thought they discovered the fake encyclopedia of an imaginary world of Tlon from Borges's "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" story...<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlön,_Uqbar,_Orbis_Tertius" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlön,_Uqbar,_Orbis_Tertius</a>
A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole:<p>> See Reilly, Ignatius J., Blood on Their Hands: The Crime of It All, A study of some selected abuses in sixteenth century Europe, a Monograph, 2 pages, 1950, Rare Book Room, Left Corridor, Third Floor, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans 18, Louisiana.<p>> Note: I mailed this singular monograph to the library as a gift; however, I am not really certain that it was ever accepted. It may well have been thrown out because it was only written in pencil on tablet paper.
<i>UR</i> reading group gets tired of BTC mining and 3D printing guns, diversifies into DIY spycraft (see also: <a href="http://thebaffler.com/blog/mouthbreathing-machiavellis" rel="nofollow">http://thebaffler.com/blog/mouthbreathing-machiavellis</a>).
A hollowed out book containing a bunch of whacky, possibly fascist stuff, is not exactly a fake book. What exactly is a fake book? What's a fake statue? All I can think of is when authorship is incorrect.