There is no quiet place to relax and read. I ran a couple of patrons and their children out of the library the other day and I am glad I did because after they left, the area around me got real quiet just as it should have been from the very beginning. Until today, I blamed the noisy children. It's not just them. It's inconsiderate people in general.
People use their cell phones.
Teaching the children to be quiet in public and private school libraries and then letting them run wild in our public libraries simply does not make a whole lot of sense to me. Headlines about crowded ferries, deteriorating roads, burgeoning school populations and declining environmental quality never seem to make the connection to deregulation and laissez-faire capitalism. If religion is the opiate of the masses, surely easy credit and corporate oligarchy are the crack cocaine. There is, however, another side of the story that is too often forgotten. The People's Power Revolution in the Philippines was a church based revolution in which a powerful tyrant was deposed by nonviolent means and a democratic government was established.