I went to my local county library branch recently to surf the web on my laptop in peace and quiet...
My, how times have changed.
I packed up after 15 minutes and left. I found it much quieter at the coffee shop.
But there's actually nothing "conservative" about her perspective. It is in fact quite liberal. She draws upon our typical "excuse culture" and calls the behavior of the children a marked sign of what appears to be a psychiatric disorder the result of parental non-discipline. She comes close to "diagnosing" their behavior as ADD, the biggest psychiatric scam of our time. The behavior of the children has little to do with mental disease. To be charitable to the little ninnies, I think the problem is that they do not understand what libraries are. They do not understand that people go to libraries to read books. They do not understand why they must be quiet. In our library, which contains thousands of books, there are virtually no patrons and absolutely no reason for "silence."