On: Death of the physical library

[mcphage]

I don’t understand why the authors valid complaints about libraries being removed randomly inserts complaints about a field he doesn’t like in incredibly juvenile tones.

The author makes a great case for the serendipity of stumbling across information that you didn’t even know you didn’t know—but not that field! That’s a field for children how dare it defile his libraries with its existence. He doesn’t care about it, so why on earth would anyone?

He betrayed his entire thesis.

[trowawee → mcphage]

Yeah, the “ew, yucky gay people!” asides are both very revealing about the author and fundamentally undermine his argument for the value of libraries.