YOU KNOW THAT YOU 'LOVE' LITERACY, AND HISTORY. IF THE BURNING OF THE LIBRARY AT ALEXANDRIA THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO 'STILL' PISSES YOU OFF. UPSETS YOU, AND FILLS YOU WITH A DEEP RESOLVE THAT 'NOTHING' LIKE THAT WILL 'EVER' HAPPEN AGAIN!
It's 'one' continuous human culture from the Ice Age to now. Not the separate outcrops official history tends to describe. So all of our work cave paintings to holograms tell our ongoing stories.
This is why the destruction of art hurts so much.
As story character "Mr. Spock" said in the "Trek" episode "The Cloud Minders",..."The Destruction of Art is a Loss for All."
The burning of books by political extremists. The dynamiting of sculptures by religious fanatics. The deleting of poetry prose essays articles by hackers is a destruction of a sacred portion of our collective cultural memory.
One that's been on going for more than 20,000 years.
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