The Common

Libraries are a very important cornerstone to our lives. With today's copyright laws you need to constantly be on the look out to see if you are breaking some of the rules, whereas if you go to the library those books have already been copyrighted and you are able to look at the information without any worries. It makes me very leery that we are so reliant on the Internet to get all of our information. We really need to go back to the basics and use the libraries for what they are meant for instead of just a building that is filling a space. Bollier makes a very good point at the end of his reading where he is saying that the library is here to stay and if the library goes it is going to have a domino effect and it will trickle down to where the Internet will have no value to us anymore. I feel that going to the library gives you a state of ownership because you can physically hold the book in your hand where as with an e-book you are reading a screen. I agree that the e-books may be a little more handy but we really need to go back into our stomping grounds and use more stable resources. They are so important to us as a democracy because this is the one part that we still own. When you go on the Internet to read a book you may have to subscribe and give personal information to buy whereas with the library you only have to have a membership card and then you are on a loan based. I do feel however that the libraries may need to do more to draw the people back to their place because people and companies like Barnes and Noble are taking your customers away from you with better incentives.

Vaidhaynathan is describing anarchy by terms of people that we are stubborn people and we want to mess around with the system first to see if we understand it and then ask questions when we don't get it. Technology is very strong in today's world . WE are controlled by the government because the government acts as a big brother always watching our every move. Instead of letting them control our every move we need to understand what and why they are watching us. Essentially Vaidhaynathan is saying that we are not very stable at all and that if we just sit back the stability will get even worse.