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^Interesting. In what respect? And will it matter if the collective conscience of Western civilization is so far gone anyways?
"For it is by no means the case that only those who believe in God could possibly have a vested interest in the question of His existence."
--Edward Feser
"Our civilization has had many religions and many dispensations of thought. But one of the things that we have forgotten is that open-mindedness to the future and respect for evidence does mean wooliness and an absence of certitude in what we are."
--Jonathan Bowden
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Well, storing information is currently very easy and cheap, and getting easier and cheaper. So as flocabulary (or something similar) replaces real mathematics, social studies, history etc. lessons, someone will have to store European history and culture for future reference, for whomever will left in the future who is capable of appreciating it. The drop in coherence across the board is steep, but not yet catastrophic. But we probably will get to that point too at some point.
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Are such things not already stored? Are you talking about somehow combining it ALL into a single source material?
"For it is by no means the case that only those who believe in God could possibly have a vested interest in the question of His existence."
--Edward Feser
"Our civilization has had many religions and many dispensations of thought. But one of the things that we have forgotten is that open-mindedness to the future and respect for evidence does mean wooliness and an absence of certitude in what we are."
--Jonathan Bowden
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In libraries, which can be looted and burned down; and in private computers and collections, which can be confiscated; and on the internet which can be censored and shut down. Not good enough. It has to be compact, easy to store even if unattended for long periods of time, easy to hide and hard to find.
I don't have any actual concrete ideas yet. It's something that "we" should keep in mind for our mid-to-long term plans and start implementing, like I said, in the not too distant future. Think of it as a horde of cultural Noah's Arks.Are you talking about somehow combining it ALL into a single source material?
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You know...we can do it like the olden days. Pass things down orally. Now what type of ORAL mode of communication would help make large chunks of vital information easier to remember? We need some kind of construct that is catchy in nature and will thus stick, know wut I'm sayin'?
"For it is by no means the case that only those who believe in God could possibly have a vested interest in the question of His existence."
--Edward Feser
"Our civilization has had many religions and many dispensations of thought. But one of the things that we have forgotten is that open-mindedness to the future and respect for evidence does mean wooliness and an absence of certitude in what we are."
--Jonathan Bowden
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Don't depend on the Internet to preserve information. In fact, the Internet makes it easier for the powers that be to distort and control the information flow... and delete information, if that serves their purposes. It hasn't come to that yet, but it may.
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One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be — though possibly a colored canvas and a sheet of notes will remain — because the last eye and the last ear accessible to their message will have gone.
-Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split."
-Robert E. Howard
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In truth, the white race will be preserved in Northeast and Midwestern America. Whether the preservation of the white race in those areas, also means the preservation of Europe's cultural past, is debatable.
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^ Curtis, you're always the optimist.
"For it is by no means the case that only those who believe in God could possibly have a vested interest in the question of His existence."
--Edward Feser
"Our civilization has had many religions and many dispensations of thought. But one of the things that we have forgotten is that open-mindedness to the future and respect for evidence does mean wooliness and an absence of certitude in what we are."
--Jonathan Bowden
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