tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56230747868041478.post2617051429171185536..comments2024-03-24T00:16:17.304-07:00Comments on Storming the Ivory Tower: Fragment Poetics: Elegy for the People's LibrarySam Keeperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00863236889998956170noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56230747868041478.post-14703041402183095812012-06-14T16:18:15.130-07:002012-06-14T16:18:15.130-07:00I never really was on the side of the Occupiers. P...I never really was on the side of the Occupiers. Partly because it's on ocean away, partly because people in my country are largely apolitical by nature.<br />I understood the Occupy movement. I felt for them. But I was never truly on their side. Part of me wanted to joke about them (and the lame copycats of Occupy Antwerp).<br />I've always defended police actions. I've spend quite some time observing a local police corps, and they're just people, doing their job, trying to make the best of though situations.<br /><br />But this is too much. Destroying books isn't something you do. No matter what you are ordered, no matter what side you're on, destroying books is something the bad guys do. <br /><br />I can't do much. But I'm now taking a side. I know that's not much, but I can't do much more. If my government starts burning books, I'll be on the barricades.Yxoquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01728852618699602516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56230747868041478.post-16736050283798210942012-06-13T21:08:39.471-07:002012-06-13T21:08:39.471-07:00You're not the only one. I think it's got ...You're not the only one. I think it's got to be a revolution of values and a peaceful revolution, though. Violent revolution leads to more art getting destroyed. Oh, and people, too, for that matter.Sam Keeperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00863236889998956170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56230747868041478.post-88099816747110899552012-06-13T20:59:49.832-07:002012-06-13T20:59:49.832-07:00It's things like this that make me unironicall...It's things like this that make me unironically think "This world is rotten." Anyone who could knowingly and willingly destroy anything like that is an atrocious being.<br />Am I the only one who thinks we're due for a second Revolution?Mixter Casualhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06585844188470546859noreply@blogger.com