[MD] Pirsig on capitalism, socialism

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[Micah]
books would not exist without libraries[?]. Isn't it the other way round? 

[Craig]
Right on.

[Arlo]
Going back to the Library at Alexandia, libraries were conceived of as
repositories for social and intellectual knowledge amassed by a culture,
preserved in order to latch said knowledge, and in the era of human
enlightenment also given the charge to provide all people with fair, equal
access to information. This is done not only to ensure an educated citizenry
for voting, but to prevent the rise of yet another aristocratic class (in
modern times, a capistocracy).

As far as I know, social public library systems have never "curtailed" human
inquiry or intellectual curiousity, yet alone Dynamic Quality. Indeed, quite
the opposite.