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To: loveliberty2
"Books could be removed from libraries, and textbooks could be revised to promote "other" ideas, but perhaps Divine Providence has allowed technology to override the censors and expose current generations to the ideas of liberty upon which their Republic was founded."

True, but I think this has also created a massive danger of an Owellian "editor" who can with a single program re-write virtually all the material on the web pertaining to, say, the Constitution. You can always produce a physical book. You'd be surprised how many times I go to the web to check a source that has mysteriously disappeared or is no longer available.

120 posted on 06/10/2011 6:56:03 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: LS; All
Thank you, LS!

Oh, my, you are correct, of course.

On the other hand, if, while this electronic window is open for obtaining actual texts of ancient, late 18th and 19th-Century documents containing the ideas of liberty, perhaps other generations will avail themselves of the opportunity to rediscover and perpetuate those ideas for posterity.

By their heavy-handed approach to governing, wouldn't it be ironic if the overreach of so-called "progressives" may have created an environment conducive to renewed interest in Adam Smith's 1775 conclusions about wealth creation, as well as a curiosity about the revolutionary ideas of liberty which motivated the men of 1776 and 1787 and produced the greatest burst of freedom, opportunity, prosperity and plenty in the history of mankind?

121 posted on 06/10/2011 10:53:32 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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