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"equivalent of the Library of Alexandria"

Thanks for putting that part in. Shrine of the Muses.

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The new Middle Ages.

Greetings Jim:

Knowledge and history are always obtainable. Yet it is only given importance by having it be shown to a person by either themselves or from someone else. In the time that the world wide web has been with us, much of the knowledge obtained has been acquired through the needs of reactionary conservative movements. It was not always this way. In the immediate aftermath of 911, the web was populated by people who sought to find the truth irrespective of political beliefs. It was, at least in my opinion, a boon period for seeking knowledge many would not be able to understand. It also helped that I was able to be a student at Hofstra University at the time and did graduate. You might remember a little bit of these older sites: Go Off, The New Enlightenment authored by Dr. Norman Livergood and Dr. Michelle Mairose, the Independent Media Center, Common Dreams, the Huffington Post (before it changed to HuffPo), Yellow Journal News. These websites, not aggregated through a social media account, were led by liberal minded political enthusiasts and others that gave a damn about the world at large.

And yet that started to change a little bit at a time the moment then Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) announced her candidacy for the presidency before 2008. Now, I think Sen. And Sec. Clinton should have first announced in 1999; but that is for another time. None the less, many of the web alternatives media did not vote or even like the Clinton family. Again, we do not have the time to go over this incredible hatred of a couple far smarter than the average person. Yet up until about a decade ago, they were at least vouching for a reasonable alternative in Republican candidate Dr. Ron Paul. You see, back then the younger gamer types were not politically inclined to vote. That of course changed through, I believe, military intelligence in concert with a now 9-year policy of Traditionalist Catholics wanting to sabotage then replace Pope Francis and the more liberal Jesuit leadership. As we all aware now, the Donald Trump residency broke us. Not to put a broken record response to it, yet I saw in those 4 years the beginnings of the traditionalist Catholic movement in their goal to effectively burn the 2022 equivalent of the Library of Alexandria. The internet which you and I are corresponding with. Though Donald Trump himself is mainstream Presbyterian; the administration was mostly conservative Catholics. And it seems if we are not careful, we will be looking at a return.

This is going to be a bit shorter than usual. What I will say is that we are on the brink of a depression in both the personal and the economic. This only gets worse if nuclear weaponry and religious fundamentalism is introduced. The recent leaked New York City PSA has gotten me some feverish dreams. I will have more to say on that. In short, we must avoid this potential conflict. Only knowledge and wisdom will defeat ignorance and war.

Do you still think you can control them? - Michael York in the 1972 film Cabaret, screenplay by Jay Allen and directed by Bob Fosse.

Best Wishes and Kindest Regards,

Robert Kelly

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Jul 17, 2022Liked by Jim Stewartson

Here is a CNN report containing a snotty letter from DeSantis to CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, the letter echoes what Flynn and Dugin have been calling for:

https://youtu.be/x0nxcq_GvvY

Ironically Fareed agrees with the letter, and he doubles down, turning the report into an anti-Democratic propaganda piece.

Just a reminder that DeSantis’s Press Secretary is a Russian agent.

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