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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
what makes me weep inside is to imagine the vast amounts of forgotten data and information and cultural objects that humans have made or thought about in the last 30 thousand years. the burning of the library at alexandria alone probably kept humanity stupid for an extra thousand needless years.
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Or even what we're doing now to tribal communities. Trying to synthetically create medicines that have taken 1000s of years to perfect... then marketing it for $$$$ and not giving them any cred. The only royalties they get are in the form of cancer.