The Importance of Knowledge

I just heard a bit of an interview on Youtube. Apparently most of the knowledge from antiquity was not lost during rhe burning of the library of Alexandria. It was lost in the Dark Ages when few people knew how to read and write. And the papyruses were falling apart. The cost of reproducing those books was prohibative. Also monks were the main people who did this work so they preferred to reproduce religious texts. So other knowledge was lost forever. 

When a country like Australia under invests in knowledge, it'd like burning a library of Alexandria that never got to exist, or pretending wr are like those Dark Ages monks. 

Yes, some other country might steal some of our ideas but the knowledge created has advanced the Earth hopefully for the better.


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