M.C. Allison

Category: Opinion

  • I’m Part of Generation X

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    Dear readers, As I age and things get harder to do physically, I wouldn’t trade the year I was born for a younger one. I can’t believe I haven’t blathered about Generation X on my blog before. I searched my archives and couldn’t see any posts on it. I’m sure on my older defunct blogs,…

  • My Utopian Vision Includes Peace and Opportunity

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    Reading history, today’s headlines, and predictions of the future, one could give up hope, believing humans will destroy each other. War after war, and stunning inequalities are the norm. But there have been great thinkers who wanted peace. Some made great strides toward that, and the developed world has made progress compared to earlier generations.…

  • Does Being Critical Make One An Expert, or Simply Jealous?

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    My question with this entry is whether being critical of creative things shows expertise or a kind of jealousy in a way. For myself, I seem to be uncritical of anything. If I don’t like a song, I skip it. If I’m in a museum and don’t like an art piece, I move onto another…

  • School Book Challenge in NYC, and A Rant

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    (The views expressed in this blog entry are my own, and not necessarily the library system I work for.) My friend asked her son if he had read the book. He responded yes, and he liked it. My friend read the book herself and thought it was fantastic. They had a thorough and positive discussion…

  • Reasons I’m Agnostic, Not Atheist

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    I read a few definitions online of Agnosticism and Atheism. My understanding of it is Agnostic tolerates the choice of others by not denying religion. Atheism denies any type of religion. They hate organized religion and judge others for their personal beliefs. Agnostics simply state they do not know if there is a god, and…

  • Music downloads, streaming, old, new, edits, and social media

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    At work I do enjoy when music CDs I selected eight years ago still get checked out by patrons of the library. It validates that I have good musical taste and, therefore, I am cool. However, the way people listen to music has changed dramatically, and now most stream from websites like Spotify, YouTube, Amazon…

  • Henry Miller and Today’s Library Book Challenges Problem

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    The views expressed in this post are my own, and not the system I work for. Nearly twenty years ago, I first read Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller for a class on ‘Intellectual Freedom’ in grad school for my library degree. For my research, the history behind it enthralled me. Since then, I’ve read…