Yes, you summarized my ramblings far better. " Yay Librarians
and Archivists " - It's hard not to anthropomorphize for the
sake of brevity.* Then again, it's not that brevity is someone
that wishes things to be shorter; it would be "appealing to
people who I feel would appreciate a quick and short and strong
statement". Hard to avoid anthropomorphizing :P* Even to say
"society" - it's the anthropomorphizing of an idea that there is
a group consensus and giving it feet and a voice... infinite
regress as to the nature of concepts themselves.* So, I don't
mind giving feet and hands and voice and a brain to concepts.*
Ultimately, I think most human writing could easily become a
Fairy Tale with just a few capitalizations here and there,
implying the Noun has in internalized Impetus... and the Impetus
is shown as a drawing of a little devil and angel chatting away
on the shoulders of a Noun as a stick figure drawn on a piece of
paper. But yes, that coffee-less rambling aside, yes.* It's the
attitude of allowing access, even under pressures of restricting
such access for whatever reasons, be they moral, religious,
political, cultural, etc. [much discussion has taken place, for
example, in purging libraries or schools or the Internet of
mythologies; the thought being that they encourage fantasy
thinking and that the world would be a better place if all
things were scientific and rational only.* That's taken place
since at least the early 20th century and has a very strong
internet presence - perhaps not so much among librarians, but
among people who believe they are fighting for some sort of pure
reason of some kind]
