This article portrays a very distorted view of the past vs the present. It portrays the push for encyclopedic collation of textual knowledge, in the past, and

This article portrays a very distorted view of the past vs the present. It portrays the push for encyclopedic collation of textual knowledge, in the past, and social media, in the present, as if they were complete, representative pictures of all the attitudes within societies towards information and knowledge in the respective time periods. As if low epistemic-quality discussions and communication mediums weren't widespread in the past, and as if there were no other ways that knowledge is treated these days.