All people, even secular people, are seeing books on the market like The End of History.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
People still try to sell books that way - as 'books can take you to foreign lands.' We've given children this idea that reading and books are a nice option, if you want that kind of thing. I hope we can get over that idea.
The net's future is far from assured, and history offers much warning. Within a few decades of Gutenberg's creation, princes and priests moved to restrict the right to print books.
As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was going to change philosophy and the course of human thought in ways that wouldn't necessarily be good.
People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
What is true for book publishing is true for civilization: the books that survive the test of time are humanity's backlist, our collective memory.
Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.
What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book - a key part of our planet's cultural legacy.
If the books are selling, the money will follow.
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
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