Anita Sundaram Coleman writes: “We’ve organized against external censorship—book bans, state control, explicit suppression. We’ve built our intellectual freedom frameworks around visible enemies: school boards, politicians, would-be censors trying to remove books from shelves. Meanwhile, we’re drowning our patrons—and ourselves—in a Huxleyan nightmare of infinite choice, weaponized engagement, and information designed to prevent the formation of selves capable of caring about books at all. The data centers humming in the desert aren’t storing banned books. They’re storing the behavioral profiles that ensure we never develop the attention span to read challenging books in the first place.”