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Could you please explain the link reference. I don't get it.

• OneTimePetes 5y ago
  There is a history of anti-history, as in revolutionary movements that tried to erase pre-existing culture. When napoleon conquered europe, the secularisation swept Europe and secularized monastrys, destroyed churches etc. Ironically like the catholic church, a thousand years prior. Old books were thrown into fire or used to pave muddy roads. And it was always for "progress" as in, the catholic church did it for progress, the protestant threw part of it out for "progress", the secularization threw the rest of it out for you guessed it. While it has its moments (the catholic church owned half of europe and its lands ripped away created a fresh start) those "Picture-storms" always created a wave of destruction too. When all the old is gone and nothing but the "horror" stories about the "before" times remain, you loose alot of knowledge too. Including the knowledge that all of this has been done a thousand times, for a thousand good and bad reasons and that even the "erasing" the past, has a long, bad history.