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Re: War and Peace


----- Original Message -----
> This is how apocrypha became canon.
> 
> 200 years from now, no one will understand or take the time to
> separate  wheat from chaff.  It will be like reading Shakespeare without 
> the marginalia.
> 
> I shudder while the recorded history of Western Civilization is
> consigned to a digital search and replace/destroy function.

I hear that Texas and South Korea are particularly interested in the
new technology, as replacing troublesome words like 'evolution' in textbooks 
can be performed almost instantaneously.  ;)

Chris

http://io9.com/5915908/south-korea-will-remove-evolution-from-its-high-school-textbooks
if you have no idea what I'm talking about
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