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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 3609432, member: 57463&quot;]I was immediately reminded of a scene in Isaac Asimov&#039;s <i>Foundation</i>. The First Foundation was sold to the emperor on the assumption that it could preserve existing knowledge and shorten the Dark Age. And it could; and it did. But the key point was that <b>the empire was already crumbling</b> as evidenced by the very fact that the idea of <b>preserving the past</b> was an easy sell.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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