“Indeed, you know most museum officials have anti-American politics the same way you know that someone is vegan, into astrology, or didn’t vote for Trump – they’ll tell you. ”
Sure but how can you really know? Do you even know what Marxism is? Psh, if you think that is Marxist you don’t know what you are talking about. Europe has real commies, not America. There are no Marxists in Europe.
The gaslighting is endless.
Our local libraries did a book special in 2016 featuring nearly 100 books on how to start a revolution, how to organize activist groups, how to conduct sabotage, how to raise a revolutionary, etc etc etc
Local museums weren’t super political, they had some overtly left wing events but weren’t dominated by activism. But the lecturers couldn’t give a presentation on Rome or anything else without their political views making an appearance. Some of it is to be expected and I don’t mind people with different views but turning libraries and museums into totalitarian activist machines is an abuse.
I’m pretty libertarian when it comes to public libraries. At least with what they have on the shelves. I also don’t have a problem with public libraries isolating sections for non-minor readers either. I don’t have a problem with K-12 public schools not putting books on their library shelves with explicit content either.
But to my mind, public libraries, when they are functioning optimally, are anti-capitalist in nature. If anyone can check out a book w/o buying it, it would soon put publishers out of business. The ratio of libraries to the public they serve is so high it would kill the market if libraries were extremely successful. So I view it as a self-fulfilling proposition. That if enough people use libraries for smut, the smut industry would collapse.
Most books, especially non-fiction, aren’t best sellers. Libraries represent a large part of the market and for many books, virtually the only market.
Publishers had a chance to build an e-book structure. Instead, they sat on their hands and allowed the hardware makers to fragment the market and then, when inevitably, a single (Amazon) platform became dominant, they were left without any leverage beyond withholding their product from the largest part of the market.
“Indeed, you know most museum officials have anti-American politics the same way you know that someone is vegan, into astrology, or didn’t vote for Trump – they’ll tell you. ”
Sure but how can you really know? Do you even know what Marxism is? Psh, if you think that is Marxist you don’t know what you are talking about. Europe has real commies, not America. There are no Marxists in Europe.
The gaslighting is endless.
Our local libraries did a book special in 2016 featuring nearly 100 books on how to start a revolution, how to organize activist groups, how to conduct sabotage, how to raise a revolutionary, etc etc etc
Local museums weren’t super political, they had some overtly left wing events but weren’t dominated by activism. But the lecturers couldn’t give a presentation on Rome or anything else without their political views making an appearance. Some of it is to be expected and I don’t mind people with different views but turning libraries and museums into totalitarian activist machines is an abuse.
I’m pretty libertarian when it comes to public libraries. At least with what they have on the shelves. I also don’t have a problem with public libraries isolating sections for non-minor readers either. I don’t have a problem with K-12 public schools not putting books on their library shelves with explicit content either.
But to my mind, public libraries, when they are functioning optimally, are anti-capitalist in nature. If anyone can check out a book w/o buying it, it would soon put publishers out of business. The ratio of libraries to the public they serve is so high it would kill the market if libraries were extremely successful. So I view it as a self-fulfilling proposition. That if enough people use libraries for smut, the smut industry would collapse.
Most books, especially non-fiction, aren’t best sellers. Libraries represent a large part of the market and for many books, virtually the only market.
Publishers had a chance to build an e-book structure. Instead, they sat on their hands and allowed the hardware makers to fragment the market and then, when inevitably, a single (Amazon) platform became dominant, they were left without any leverage beyond withholding their product from the largest part of the market.