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1. Ika Makimaki 🌻 (pezmico@mastodon.nz)'s status on Monday, 16-May-2022 20:11:02 UTC Ika Makimaki 🌻

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   A #library is a great example of an institution where humans collaborate with each other for motives beyond profit. It is a place where it is easy for everyone to understand how our relationships with strangers can be more than mere commercial transactions.

   A library is, in a way, an #anarchist space dedicated to knowledge.
   It has rules and we observe them out of respect, not fear.
   It has experts whose authority is not arbitrary, but knowledge based.

   A library is a sanctuary from capitalism.

   • Ika Makimaki 🌻 (pezmico@mastodon.nz)'s status on Monday, 16-May-2022 20:11:04 UTC Ika Makimaki 🌻

     Imagine #libraries don't exist, but there's this person who thought of them and is trying to convince everyone else about them.

     -Borrow books for free? People are going to steal them!
     -You can just come in to use a computer? Well that's just going to be abused by freeloaders.
     -Staff? Who is going to pay them? Why should my taxes be wasted subsidising access to books for people who haven't saved and bought their own?

     How many amazing things do we dismiss? What is our society missing out on?

     Fay Maritela Marinera and Victorhck repeated this.