Ermintruder
The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all...
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One of the many yet-to-be-commenced topics that I've had, precariously-perched within the 100+ Chrome browser tabs that I've had open for years on this thrashed smart-phone, is that of libraries.
Specifically, libraries now.
I love them, but nowadays maybe in the same way as I do museums. They cannot ever return to what they once were (unless the next substantial asteroid hits us, at which point their applied relevance as repositories of redemptive direction and applied inspiration might return.
What exactly are they, now? Are they large telephone boxes, in a world of mobile phones? Shrines of inspiration? Civic habit undertaken via gestalt moral blackmail?
I utterly adore them, but am totally-conflicted as to their actual purpose in the present day. They remind me of the classic old-school department stores in cities of the western world, miles of gleaming escalators and clothes-racks, around which we all must wander with slack-jawed purposelessness (we're certainly not there to buy anything FGS....)
So go ahead and counter my reluctant sacrilege. But you'd better make it good...
(nb I wouldn't be without them, and nor would kindergarten kids or street-sleepers. But what are they actually meant to be used for, now?)
(Mods- apologies: perhaps this deserves a seperate thread)
Specifically, libraries now.
I love them, but nowadays maybe in the same way as I do museums. They cannot ever return to what they once were (unless the next substantial asteroid hits us, at which point their applied relevance as repositories of redemptive direction and applied inspiration might return.
What exactly are they, now? Are they large telephone boxes, in a world of mobile phones? Shrines of inspiration? Civic habit undertaken via gestalt moral blackmail?
I utterly adore them, but am totally-conflicted as to their actual purpose in the present day. They remind me of the classic old-school department stores in cities of the western world, miles of gleaming escalators and clothes-racks, around which we all must wander with slack-jawed purposelessness (we're certainly not there to buy anything FGS....)
So go ahead and counter my reluctant sacrilege. But you'd better make it good...
(nb I wouldn't be without them, and nor would kindergarten kids or street-sleepers. But what are they actually meant to be used for, now?)
(Mods- apologies: perhaps this deserves a seperate thread)
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