Excuse me, but you're ignoring Yankee Ingenuity: We were rounding up Japs in concentration camps on our own before we knew of what the Germans were doing.
If Intellectual Property Rights were as rigidly asserted then as they are now, who knows what advancements we'd be enjoying now.
Libraries free the mind to consider the opportunities for a better life (and often include books on medicine and how to build hospitals).
Are you kidding? Have you ever met the people who work in them? They are the most oppressive, rigid and inflexible people as ever walked the planet, and yet they work in a place which you claim free[s] the mind!
This thread of Human life versus the written word is merely argumentative and does not merit the attention of wise men.
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What is it about social interaction that leads you to believe it requires less abstract thought?
Excuse me, but you're ignoring Yankee Ingenuity: We were rounding up Japs in concentration camps on our own before we knew of what the Germans were doing.
If Intellectual Property Rights were as rigidly asserted then as they are now, who knows what advancements we'd be enjoying now.
Libraries free the mind to consider the opportunities for a better life (and often include books on medicine and how to build hospitals).
Are you kidding? Have you ever met the people who work in them? They are the most oppressive, rigid and inflexible people as ever walked the planet, and yet they work in a place which you claim free[s] the mind!
This thread of Human life versus the written word is merely argumentative and does not merit the attention of wise men.