> It made a lot of us very uncomfortable, but we left behind the day when
> everyone could read everything for himself, sometime between Guttenburg
and
> Leibnitz's Monadology.
We've never had it to leave behind. Each of us attempts to disspell out
own personal darkness, to peer out from Plato's cave, and make sense of
the pattern of light and darkness cast upon its walls. To borrow a bit
from one of George Robert's lectures once again:-).
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I meant, there once was a day when you could **read** everything for
yourself. There has never been a day when you could figure out everything
for yourself, agreed!
I think in say 1400 AD students at, say, University of Paris didn't really
major, partly beacuse they could just read the whole campus library. For a
long time instead of "I attended Medical School" it was just "I read Galen".
One book.
THAT day we've left behind.
Peter
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