[GraceG]

Digital Deletion is acceptable because there is no carbon footprint...

[Fungi]

How about the Bibliocaust of 642 when the Saracens destroyed the great library in Alexandria Egypt? That event rarely gets mentioned. There were no books then, but it was a tremendous library.

[SoCal Pubbie]

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum – even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.”

“Intellectual” commentators on the sidelines can suggest such devious manipulations but the thugs who eventually grab power don’t follow the advice. Stalin stamped out Trotskyism like an exterminator clearing out rats.

[Jolla]

Couple of interesting things I have seen lately and did not know. Goering took over the Flying Circus, the squadron of The Red Baron when the Baron was killed, Goering was quite the flying ace. Also the rise of the brown shirts came because the Germans were forced to disarm and in places totally demilitarize, so every group or location had to have its own militia for protection.