Moderns love the idea of libraries, they love it so much they kill it. Instead of building a dozen small libraries within walking distance of 100 000 people, they build one huge ugly library, within walking distance of 100 people.
...and then the "Good Moderns" wonder why nobody reads, why library attendance is falling, why book shops are going out of business and why nobody walks anymore. And in secret they make fun of the sat-at-home unreading plebs with their flabby bellies and ill fitting clothes.
Our ancestors, who loved their fellows, built libraries like churches! Every neighborhood wanted one! They were beautiful, ennobling! You felt better about yourself by just by stepping over the threshold. Little temples of learning. All this is gone now. Because we believed lies. 
We built libraries because we believed we needed them to better ourselves and our cities, we believed in a common good that could not necessarily be tabulated, calculated, and tagged. But today we are all equal and good just as we are and we believe in Big Data not Small Wisdom.
