Every book is a record of the life of the people who thumbed through it, the binder who secured its pages in place, the designers who chose its cover and typeset. So, when news emerged that Anthropic scanned and destroyed out-of-print titles to train Claude, it felt like a gut-punch to the very spirit of storytelling and artmaking that has always sustained our humanity.This week, author Ed Simon articulates the fascist logic behind this destruct…