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Books, books, books …. find them, read them, think about them, write about them and write your own, talk about them with others … and above all HOARD and CHERISH THEM!

rewrite world history? absolutely … its been done at least once before … I offer the speculation that one place to begin looking for when this rewrite might have occurred is to compare and contrast the observable differences in the assumptions of the underlying metaphysics of Spinoza (and prior Natural Philosophy) and Descartes (and the so-called “philosophy” of those who followed him).

“I’m a little verklempt. Talk amongst yourselves. Topic: Metaphysics is the ‘science’ that neither studies ‘being as such’ nor ‘the first causes of things’ nor ‘things that do not change’. Discuss.”
– from Coffee Talk with Scarmoge. 🙂

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A World Without Books: the End Game for Social Justice Radicals?

written by Robert Bridge

September 29, 2019

The vast treasure trove of information contained on Google, our modern Library of Alexandria, torched by Julius Caesar’s soldiers in 48 BC, is vulnerable not only to some catastrophic event, like an asteroid strike or, potentially worse, a cloistered pimply hacker, but to the manipulations and contraventions of those who seek to rewrite world history.

The greatest threat to man is the ennui and apathy that comes with the belief that there is no great threat. And what threat could be greater than that of the leather-bound, typeface word – painstakingly and somewhat redundantly in the age of laptops and smartphones – imprinted onto the palpable, creamy pages of parchment known as books, falling into the black hole of oblivion?

full article at:
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/09/29/world-without-books-end-game-for-social-justice-radicals/