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Can you imagine how many books were burned and how much information was lost during the Dark Ages?

Thank god religion is a meme nowadays.

>> No.7249276

whats the point of pre-internet age information?

>> No.7249279

If humanity had been nihilists from the beginning rather than dogmatic religious types, we'd be extinct by now

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>>7249270
can you imagine how many books are thrown out now? Just people tossing out first editions, signed copies, lost manuscripts, misprints, last copies of books that were otherwise destroyed or wiped out, just because they fell into the hands of someone who didn't know what they were holding, or just didn't care.

>> No.7249324

>>7249279
No one is a Nihilist in 2015 past the age of 16.

It's repulsively juvenile.

>> No.7249340

>>7249324
No and only with a superficial reading of it

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Dumb frog posters.

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The major cause of works lost in the Middle Ages was when we switched from using scrolls to using codices; just like there's a ton of stuff on VHS that never made it to DVD before the tapes degraded.

>> No.7249387

Just imagine how insufferable the "start with the greeks" cunts would be if even more of their obsolete tripe had survived. Thank you, filthy illiterate peasants of the Dark Ages!

>> No.7249512

Makes me think that books like Heart of Darkness by Conrad will be forever banned in the future if liberals and feminists get their way. Sorry, I'll go back to /pol/...

>> No.7249520

Can you imagine how many books were burned and precious monuments lost in 20th century totaliarian regimes?

>> No.7249536

>>7249520
Can you imagine how many books will be burned and precious monuments be smashed in the centuries to come?

>> No.7249547

>>7249387
>tfw would like to read everything EPICurus wrotecuz he was so chill and based

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>>7249270
I just read an article about how the Confederate monument on Stone Mountain is being topped by a martin luther king statue. ISIS are blowing up religious sites and world heritage sites across the levant, and we are less than 20 years from the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan.

Dont be so quick to discount the power of religion or the fact that certain groups see the destruction of culture as very very useful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBJE6wUm-cA

>> No.7249590

>>7249583
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/

the movement to censure literature with "trigger warnings" exists as well. It actually exists.

>> No.7249975

>>7249512

When the fuck did this thought process begin? A decade ago, conservatives had the reputation for wanting to ban everything. You're too young to remember that though, huh?