Date: 2011-01-19 04:30 am (UTC)
starlady: a circular well of books (well of books)
From: [personal profile] starlady
If you find this scenario depressing, there is always the dystopian-future alternative, if you're into those. Each nation, according to its own inclination, shall have a War on Piracy, similar to my own proud homeland's excellent War on Drugs, in which we will prosecute only working-class people and ethnic minorities, most of whom will have no legal access to books because they're all digital now and we have shut down most of the libraries due to budget shortfalls, and as Tucker Carlson says, "why do they need libraries? People should go to Barnes and Noble anyway." I offer this scenario freely to Cory Doctorow for use in a work of lifeless, repellent didactic fiction.

Yes. There's something relating to neoliberalism lurking in the background here, where everything is reduced to base monetary value and so-called free market concerns, and it's disgusting.
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