Article says: > One bookshelf owner said, "I'm delighted to read feedback on books picked to reflect my view on the world." If the idea is to show people book

Article says: > One bookshelf owner said, "I'm delighted to read feedback on books picked to reflect my view on the world." If the idea is to show people books reflecting your view of the world, I can imagine that in the US it actually would get political real freaking fast. In some temples in Japan one can buy a small wooden sign where one can write one's wishes/prayer onto it, the sign comes with a piece of rope to hang on a prayer tree. When I visited in 2019, many of the signs just had "5 demands" written on them, written presumably by Hong Kongers[1]. And to throw a grenade into the conversation, I was in a hostel in Iceland where there's a wall made of blackboard material where travellers can leave their messages. I noticed one of the messages was "Palestine" (nothing provocative like having the word "Free" in front of it), and next to it was an aggressive chalk writing in the tone of "Fuck you!" or wishing the country death. (I don't remember exactly what it said). I had a chuckle because it was the opposite of what the media usually portrays as who's the agressor and who's the victim. I feel like the library can only work in Japan, and not the rest of the world, however civilized they claim to be... [1] https://www.scmp.com/yp/discover/news/hong-kong/article/3065950/hong-kong-protests-what-are-five-demands-what-do https://www.scmp.com/yp/discover/news/hong-kong/article/3065...