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It is common in some authoritarian societies today that a book can only be published with a cover warning or a preface detailing its mistakes. We seem to be very close to adopting that model in Western societies.
There might be an official formula to eliminate doubt and streamline the process. For example, every monograph would start with the sentence “The book I am studying contains several ideas from which I want to immediately dissociate myself” with a footnote detailing those ideas
Authorities could also create new literary personae. For example there would be Pound and Pound*. The latter is the writer Ezra Pound but with all problematic passages expunged. And then each person could freely decide if he wants to read or write about Pound or Pound*
