Think about how cool it is libraries exist:

  1. One of the few public places where you aren't expected or pressured into buying anything

  2. Usually calm & cozy as fuck

  3. Have changed with the times -- not just books but computers, borrowing movies, toys, e-books, magazines, some even video games, artwork, and plants.

  4. Everyone loves them. Even chuds, boomers, and suburbanites generally love the library. Good for kids, preteens, teens, adults, and seniors.

  5. Literally free

Imagine if libraries didn't already exist today, how angry Fox News pundits would be if someone tried to make one. Or think about how convoluted one of our feckless billionaires would try to invent one so of course it somehow can be profit-generating.

I just love libraries.

  • determinism2 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    My earliest memory of my childhood library was literally :ferret-poggers:

    They had a pog-making machine and I thought it was the equivalent of a money printer.