A great library has a least one book that will anger and offend you. A completely useless library is filled with books that don't challenge your mindset. - ThreadSky

natear.bsky.social • 2 days ago

A great library has a least one book that will anger and offend you.
A completely useless library is filled with books that don't challenge your mindset.

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mrrochester.bsky.social•2 days ago

Well said! I think Kafka had it right: “We ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy?
Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books . . .

hivibebadbitch.bsky.social•2 days ago

Love!!!! I think that’s a good theory for life too! 💗💗💗

simonr13.bsky.social•2 days ago

Sorry mate, I was being sarcastic.
The fact that I had to point that out lol...

simonr13.bsky.social•2 days ago

Fucking hell.
You are a proper sage...

thosmarvin.bsky.social•2 days ago

Same goes with friends. And family.

daleplinth.bsky.social•1 day ago

Great argument for what a public library should include.
Not a good argument for what an elementary school library should have available.

bookyboo.bsky.social•2 days ago

I'm a librarian and we were taught that if you are not offending someone you're not doing your job. Present both sides with the best tools and let people make their own decisions.

drjuliette.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s called “Soul on Ice” 😂

thoughtfulcatholic.bsky.social•2 days ago

The advantage of physical libraries and bookshops is that you can accidentally pick up a book that you wouldn't otherwise have come across, one that stretches and challenges you. When all the books you see are curated by an algorithm that kind of encounter becomes much less likely.

kacencallender.bsky.social•2 days ago

Unless the books that anger and offend are calling for the eradication of groups of humans based on their marginalizations. I’d say that’s a main exception.

libretechsystems.xyz•1 day ago

Getting away from neoliberal Brahmins wasn’t a chapter? It’s ok only real humans like salt on their cracker

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