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  • And at the time it was true.

    If all the knowledge you have in your society can be memorized and recited, writing it down means it can be changed.

    On the other hand, if you have a society where you know of that there are over 500,000 types of beetles, it might be a better idea to come up with a way to record that information without memorization.

    Just because an idea is new/old doesn’t mean it’s good/bad.

    Things have to be judged on their own merits.















  • Oil man Cheney wanted to open Afghanistan to a pipeline project.

    Gore probably would have used special ops teams to locate and extract bin Ladn.

    Also, the Taliban destroyed statues of the Buddha that had stood for centuries. That happened in March of 2001. The Bush administration didn’t want to hurt the oil deal, so they let the Taliban go ahead. Gore might have done more to stop the destruction. Seeing America take a firm stand on a minor issue might have deterred the Afghans from allowing bin Ladn to hide there.

    Another thing. There was a report issued before the 9/11 attack. If Gore had been President, the White House might have acted to stop the attack.