{"id":23830,"date":"2019-09-10T12:47:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T16:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=23830"},"modified":"2019-09-13T23:30:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T03:30:59","slug":"a-university-for-the-people-becomes-an-apple-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/10\/a-university-for-the-people-becomes-an-apple-store\/","title":{"rendered":"A University for the People becomes an Apple Store"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During a recent trip to Washington, D.C., I worked near the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carnegie_Library_of_Washington_D.C.\">Carnegie Library,<\/a> dedicated in 1903 as &#8220;A University for the People&#8221; and engraved with the names of authors such as Shakespeare and Plato. 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768w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_9536.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1520px) 100vw, 1520px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_9537-1520x1140.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1520\" height=\"1140\" src=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_9537-1520x1140.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"23836\" data-link=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=23836\" class=\"wp-image-23836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_9537-1520x1140.jpg 1520w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_9537-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_9537-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_9537-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_9537.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1520px) 100vw, 1520px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_9407-1520x738.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1520\" height=\"738\" src=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_9407-1520x738.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"23837\" data-link=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=23837\" class=\"wp-image-23837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_9407-1520x738.jpg 1520w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_9407-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_9407-1024x497.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_9407-768x373.jpg 768w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_9407.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1520px) 100vw, 1520px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my own Facebook post at the time of encountering this mixture of private philanthropy, government administration, and conspicuous consumption, I wrote <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>it is a shame that the Republicans who control the DC local government could not resist becoming stooges for Corporate America.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are the minds of District residents being elevated by this repurposed temple to reading? Here&#8217;s a sticker from a nearby lamppost:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_9241Edited.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_9241Edited-1096x1520.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23838\" width=\"390\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_9241Edited-1096x1520.jpg 1096w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_9241Edited-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_9241Edited-739x1024.jpg 739w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_9241Edited-768x1065.jpg 768w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_9241Edited.jpg 1385w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(I saw these in multiple location around the city; see also <a href=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/01\/resist-permanently-on-a-d-c-public-sidewalk\/\">https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/01\/resist-permanently-on-a-d-c-public-sidewalk\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who is excited to order an iPhone 11?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, from the nearby Smithsonian American Art Museum, a 1905 portrait of Andrew Carnegie:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_9473.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_9473-1397x1520.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23908\" width=\"518\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_9473-1397x1520.jpg 1397w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_9473-276x300.jpg 276w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_9473-941x1024.jpg 941w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_9473-768x835.jpg 768w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_9473.jpg 1765w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Related:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/03\/andrew-carnegie\/\">https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/03\/andrew-carnegie\/<\/a> Carnegie was the Bill Gates of his day.  Carnegie became the richest man in the world through a combination of intelligence, hard work at an early age, a certain amount of what we today would regard as illegal insider trading, and connections.  Once he was the richest guy in the world, everyone listened to everything he said very carefully.  He looked around and decided that the greatest evil facing the world was war.  War did not provide who was right, only who was stronger.  After concluding that he was, in addition to being the richest guy in the world, probably one of the smartest, he invested much of his money and most of his energy in achieving peace among nations.  Folks such as Teddy Roosevelt privately thought that he was an old fool, but nobody would say it to his face.  Carnegie pushed for peace and mediation among nations and spent four of the last five years of his life watching World War I sweep through Europe. [The analogy with Bill Gates is that, after becoming both the richest and smartest guy in the world, he decided that he could solve the problems of poverty and disease in Africa that had defied attempts by the world\u2019s biggest governments and NGOs.]<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent trip to Washington, D.C., I worked near the Carnegie Library, dedicated in 1903 as &#8220;A University for the People&#8221; and engraved with the names of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-non-profit-organizations"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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