Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:
“It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.
“There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.
“If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the ‘medicine closet’ and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That’s why you should always have a nutrition choice!
“Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity.”
"If you're going to adopt explicitly Christian language, then I'm going to look for Christian reasoning and ethics in how you do things."
@esaumccaulley on 🎙️The Esau McCaulley Podcast
Anyone else think these Cocktail hour #UFC events are lame as hell? @ufcfightnight if they can do this then Learn from @aew & @WWE travel and open up the venues.
And whenever I find someone who seems willing to defend this idea, all I've had to do is say "so you'd be okay if a POTUS from the other side had this power?" and presto, we're almost magically back to constitutional thinking.
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life,