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- From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: support for the arts in the US
- Date: 12 Dec 1992 18:16:58 GMT
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- In article <tg9dhtk@zola.esd.sgi.com> rmr@sgi.com (Robert M. Reimann) writes:
- >
- >Humor aside, the obvious fault in reasoning here
- >is to equate financial support with "institutionalization",
-
- The difference is only in degree; and no real line can be drawn,
- so it is very easy for the one to slide into the other.
-
- >Are you therefore also against public funding of
- >libraries, because of the power librarians are given
- >over selection of titles?
-
- No; library sales don't have much effect on book profits. I'm
- unhappy about public funding of libraries for two reasons: that
- libraries are not a public good, and that public libraries make
- it impossible for private libraries to exist.
-
- If you want poor people to be able to read, you should give
- them money - not libraries.
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