re: What are the point of public libraries anymore?

quote:

---

When was the last time you've been to one? In today's age, I feel as if public libraries have become unnecessary because of the technology that the average person has available to them. So why not get rid of them and save some money?

---

If your mother would have swallowed I would have the ten minutes of my life I spent reading this thread back.

Apologize, you trashy old piece of shite.

Ours has free wifi 24/7, and it works just outside where there are covered tables. I always see people out there on laptops. I assume it's a great resource for job seekers.

I go fairly often. Why buy a book when I can read it for free?

My mom goes all the time. She reads these romance novels. I’m sure the old man likes it because she is not filling their house with a shite load of books.

We go to the library all the time. Public libraries have some great activities for kids.

We also use the library for audio books.

You can also check out DVDs for free. We use it to find some of the old classics that you can't find on streaming services.

OP is quite ignorant.

They have cool classes and activities for the kids. They provide a quiet place to work or study away from your home. They usually have meeting rooms available if you have a group or business meeting. They have books that you can browse and sample before you check them out. There are a lot of reasons to have a library.

quote:

---

OP is quite ignorant.

---

I get where he's coming from if he recently looked at property taxes, even if I disagree with him.

Alot of people fuss about BREC and Library taxes in EBR, particularly when a park or library goes up in a questionable area or for a questionable purpose.

But yea, he's a tard for thinking people don't use public libraries. One of the most important services they offer is helping poor folks access employment websites.
They will even assist functioning mentally disabled people apply for jobs as well as help with filing taxes(Libraries have long been a source for paper income tax forms).
I have personal experience with this in my family.

It's not just books and internet access.

This country’s average vocabulary is indicative of the value we place upon reading in general, and this from a people who have the answers to their problems a mere keystroke away in their hands, and still we sound more and more unintelligent as time goes on. If libraries become extinct, it will only be fitting that they do, in keeping with our addiction to constantly being entertained, and extreme reluctance to read and become edified as a result.



What’s truly funny, is how our society fashions itself as somehow superior to the intellectual midgets of the past, and yet if we compare even the above average American today to our founding fathers for example, it becomes painfully obvious that our vocabulary is that of a third grader compared to theirs. That’s because they were, by most accounts, voracious readers, and put their language skills acquired through their readings into their own extensive writings, and that of course explains their penmanship as well, which tends to make ours look like cave art in comparison.



TLDR?


Cliff Notes: We’re not as smart as we like to fashion ourselves as being.

Need more proof? See the thread entitled “Kendrick Lamar has won the Pulitzer Prize for music for DAMN”

That’s the road we’re on.

quote:

---

uesday and I'll go back on Saturday.

---

You just looking for homeless hoes to bring home and violate.