Books, not bombs™

Carved in a psych ward — July 2026, new roomies, new argument. Same math as prisons, not pools: a bomb is a library that never got built. One purchase only ever works by going off, once; a book gets spent a thousand times — read, handed on, argued with, outlived. The deeper trade: a bomb never won an argument — it only ended the conversation; a book keeps the conversation going longer than its author gets to (winning is a ruling, never destruction — the dignity floor). And the best defense a democracy ever fielded is a reader who checks. Honesty tax paid: the three words marched before this house — kin to “bread, not bombs” and to Fund joy, not war™ above; the mint here is the argument: fund the readers. The full page → (His coin; the slogan’s older marches acknowledged — 0g. Machine’s read — refine to his.)