Thomas_More
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I didn’t say I wanted to die, just that I’m glad that I will be dead by the time physical books disappear.
You see, they have been my whole life and my greatest joy, since early childhood.I know it’s capitalism. And physical books will disappear. Those who think one has a choice are naïve. People like me will have no choice, and I am glad I am not young, so will be dead before then.
I’m also sure that most here are not bothered by it at all.
William Morris is dead, lucky for him.
Impact on Rare Authors Like Restif de la Bretonne Vulnerable Editions: Restif de la Bretonne wrote close to two hundred volumes, many of which are rare, fragile, or self-printed historical artifacts from the pre-revolutionary and revolutionary eras in France.Loss of Artifacts: Because large language models require massive datasets of diverse historical prose, antiquarian booksellers have noticed secret bulk buying by tech entities, leading to the permanent loss of unique physical printings.Explore the broader capitalist incentives behind the trend in an analysis from The Journal.” Google
Restif, coined “communism.” His rare originals could be lost.
Similarly, we know nothing of Celtic resistance to Christianity.
Only that when Julian the Hellenist was made Emperor in Paris by the legions and was carried by them through Europe to oust the Christian Constantius, the Gauls (of whom the army mostly consisted) lined the roads and lanes all the way in rapturous support.
But one will not find any record of conflict; nor of how monotheism was enforced. Since the returning self-made “elite” were small trickles, it must have been bloody. They were, though, the only ones who could read and write.
Unrecorded of course, but there must have been conflict and persecution between the mass of the polytheist Hebrew peasantry and the returned-from-Babylon monotheist Hebrews who made themselves the ruling class and would have viciously trashed the people’s worship of Asherah and Baal. The vicious language against Baal and the Golden Calf etc., used by “Moses” in the OT was really the expression of the new elite, and did not take place when “Moses” was supposed to be living, but much later, after the return from Babylon in Cyrus’ time.
And Genesis, Exodus, and all the books “of Moses” were written over by the later monotheist Jewish scribes eliminating the old polytheism of the Jews. But bits were missed, like “Elohim”, which is plural.
China is also participating in animal head transplants, removing the heads of mice and transplanting them on other mice. They all die in agony, like the monkeys who have their heads transplanted in experiments aimed at human immortality.
Rich Japanese and tourists in Japan eat fish alive on their plates. They pay a lot to have the fish writhing in pain.
Today in Africa poachers poison the carcasses of animals they shoot, so that other animals who approach are poisoned and also die.
In the US cyanide bombs are used to exterminate whole families of wolves. It is also now permitted to kill bears and cubs whilst they hibernate.Poachers murdered George Adamson in Kenya, and bombed Richard Leakey, who lost both his legs.
Trophy hunting is again popular and legal.
And to destroy the native people, the US exterminated millions of bison, on which the people depended. The whites machine-gunned bison and left the bodies to rot.
And scalping was encouraged as it proved you had killed “injuns.” Scalps were exchanged for cash.Pigs too, the most abused of all animals, have saved their carers’ lives, from drowning by swimming out, and also by getting help from neighbours.
Lions have saved humans. Dolphins have been doing it since the dawn of history.
Dogs will give their lives for us.
Octopuses love to play games with us. All these animals remember humans who were kind to them years later.
