Re: evil "libraries"

[Dana Paxson]

I was about to make a similar observation when Eric's post appeared.  
Many people in this benighted nation of ours believe fervently in NO 
public funding for anything except the few things they want for 
themselves.  The health insurance fiasco-in-the-making is partly a 
consequence of their entrenched and inveterate opposition to sharing 
anything with anybody.  Libraries are on their hit lists too.

Whatever happened to the idea of mutual benefit derived from a social 
contract of sharing some of the burdens of life, gaining economies of 
scale, and so on?  Why do so many people seem to have their gaze fixed 
solely on their own hemorrhoids?

Arrgh.


On 1/20/2010 8:14 AM, Eric Scoles wrote:
It's a little less funny to me because I've previously read this, 
which is NOT satire:

http://rebirthofreason.com/Articles/Landauer/The_Scourge_of_Public_Libraries.shtml

Really, it's not. It's totally serious. The short version is that 
because libraries are inherently destroyers of value because a) 
they're publicly funded [all publicly funded activity is 
value-destruction in this worldview], and b) they steal revenues from 
publishers. The familiar bugaboos of lazy/incompetent public workers, 
taxation at gunpoint, and the "socialistic gravy train" (to name but a 
few) also rear their trite and ugly heads.



On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Pat Rapp <pr...@rochester.rr.com 
<mailto:pr...@rochester.rr.com>> wrote:

    Haha! Too funny! Can’t wait to share this one at work.

    : )

    *From:* r-spec@googlegroups.com <mailto:r-spec@googlegroups.com>
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    *Subject:* evil "libraries"

    This was is fun blogpost that's making the rounds.

    http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2010/01/offline-book-lending-costs-us.html


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