Read this, please:

martin said:
In 1865, the poet Walt Whitman asked:


I have always loved these three lines from Whitman’s elegy “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” which he wrote in the spring of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. I have been thinking about them as we mark the 249th year since the ratification of the Declaration of Independence. The lines distill an essential question that any artist and civic figure who believes American ideals are worth sustaining must ask: How shall we honor, remember and learn from our national past? And how shall we transmit essential values of the past to citizens of the future?

I’ve had Whitman in mind this spring as we’ve watched the Trump administration and its Department of Government Efficiency disassemble the cultural infrastructure of the nation. These reckless and shortsighted cuts have affected our libraries and museums, our public media institutions, our local arts and humanities councils and the longstanding endowments — including the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities — that have provided funding for the past 60 years. These institutions are the entities we’ve charged with hanging pictures on the national chamber walls; they were established to represent and to execute on the principle that a great country and a great civilization needs self-understanding, and that such understanding comes not from politicians or congressional allocations but from lasting works of reflection that connect past, present and future.

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Who goes to public libraries anymore except drug addicts and perverts? Kids use the internet. Have for years. Probably isn’t anyone under the age of 30 that knows how to use the card catalog

you are stuck in the past. Be progressive
 
Teflon Don said:
Who goes to public libraries anymore except drug addicts and perverts? Kids use the internet. Have for years. Probably isn’t anyone under the age of 30 that knows how to use the card catalog

you are stuck in the past. Be progressive
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Sooo....like Trump the only book you own and read is Mein Kampf?
 
Teflon Don said:
Who goes to public libraries anymore except drug addicts and perverts? Kids use the internet. Have for years. Probably isn’t anyone under the age of 30 that knows how to use the card catalog

you are stuck in the past. Be progressive
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People who read books go to the library. That leaves you out, as you say.
 
Yakuda said:
Why are you such a little bitch? The "university system" isnt going anywhere you fucking demented drama queen ,
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Did you mean to say you fucking demented drama queen, or were you really wanting to say you fucking demented drag queen?

You know, because all the drag queens and biologically confused people are liberals or leftists.
 
Teflon Don said:
Who goes to public libraries anymore except drug addicts and perverts?
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What are you, 86 years old?
This is the 21st century. The public library has gone online. I can borrow ebooks, download audio, and watch streaming content available from the library for free, without ever leaving the comfort of home.
 
Cypress said:
You don't need the Socratic method to learn calculus, statistics, physics, chemistry, and Earth sciences, which were the focus of my education.
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Matt Dillon ran away from our exchange, never explaining to me why we should have used the Socratic dialectic method in physics, calculus, and statistics classes.
 
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