Bree (BookshopBree)’s Reviews > Is This a Cry for Help? > Status Update

“Why did I choose this job? Why did I pursue this? Why didn't anyone warn me that I'd spend days telling people not to cook meat in the bathroom while hearing others chant from outside that I'm a pedophile? I just wanted to be around books and help people.”

This is so real bc my library interviews always felt more catered to crisis management than book knowledge.

“,it's also important that we have access to information that represents different viewpoints-even viewpoints that are widely considered bad. Engaging with information that opposes our own opinions can open our minds up to new ideas, and it can help us get a deeper understanding of our own position. This is part of what justifies keeping reading information that's hateful or ignorant.“

This.

“Sometimes people talk about humans today as if we're more advanced than everyone in history, but we aren't really individually more advanced.
Collectively, because we exist on the shoulders of everyone who came before us, we've developed.
We benefit from the information the people before us gathered, applied, and made easier to find.”