I am seriously beginning to wonder if we can really ever have anything nice, like ever. I preface this with my love of libraries, I have had a library card every place I have ever lived since age 8. I am 59. I never knew this before today and yeah, goofy as it is, I’m bummed about this.

Melvil Dewey, the guy who created the Dewey Decimal Classification for libraries, was a complete and total racist, sexist, bigoted asshole. I found this out at the library, lol. I went yesterday to see the county’s remodel and to find a few books about drawing faces and forms. There was a big buzz with the front desk staff about the ALA removing his name from an award because he was just an asshole to almost everyone. His wife was not exactly lovely either. They owned a resort that didn’t allow Jewish people, or any one not the right level of white. He also could not keep his hands off women who weren’t his wife and was kicked out of the ALA in the early 1900s because of that shit. There’s probably more there to dig up, but I can’t go down that rabbit hole at the moment.

I’m really starting to think that humans are just mostly awful. I’m having trouble believing otherwise at the moment. I mean come ON. Living in red state America isn’t helping. And I know it’s weird, they really do care about libraries and schools here (curriculum however is not the best because religion and politics don’t educate kids very well alone), but there’s a level of mean spirit here that can be palpable at times. Sorry to be weird, I’m wired like that.