Yes. I had several large bookcases in my old house. Nearly filled with books. And when I decided to downsize I had to have a come to Jesus with it. We had read the vast majority of them, but we never looked at them or used them anymore. In deciding to get rid of them, I realized how much of my identity was tied up in thinking of myself as a person with books - but that’s fairly silly. Books are just objects. They’re impermanent like everything else. And that’s just not the world we live in anymore. Everything is digital now. So I got rid of them - it was hard, but as I suspected then - I don’t miss them now.
I will say, that I do have some deeper thoughts on the importance of having libraries with physical copies, because if we were to ever have some massive solar storm, or other catastrophe that decimated the internet and electronics…we’d lose a great deal of knowledge and information. That is concerning.
Yikes. You seem to know very, very little of the history in the region and I say that as someone who is essentially pro nobody. My advice would be, in your case, to read so me history on the area and the issues there. It’s long and complicated. Then decide who, if anyone, you should boycott.
I think the whole thing is a tragedy. And yet again, a humanitarian crisis brought to you by the US and UK’s meddling foreign policy. As is so often the case.