> 99.999+% of history has been lost, and that's OK. The modern fetish of archiving everything is not necessary or healthy. There are people who spend their liv

> 99.999+% of history has been lost, and that's OK. The modern fetish of archiving everything is not necessary or healthy. There are people who spend their lives trying to read between the lines of what survived, in order attempt to answer some question that could have been easily answered from some of the lost material. The "modern fetish" of archiving everything is an attempt to avoid culling material that may later turn out to have been valuable. All but 1% of what's saved will always be worthless, it's just impossible to know for certain which 1% that will turn out to be.