Burning Books has a long Human History///tis a form of REDUCTION

[opihimoimoi]

Spain and her Church....burned many "books".

The Mayas Codexs was burned so complete...only 1 0r 2 remain...Much of ther history was lost to Humanity

Easter Islanders had their "books" in the form of Knots....most were burned away w sim results

Hawaiians had their books in the form Oral Traditions....For many years Spoken Hawaiian was banned from schools....only a tiny number of old timers remain fluet. The language is currently undergoing an effort to save it...

The Library of ALEXANDRIA remains as the most tragic of losses....Tremendous loss....

Them Nazis burned vig time..

So did Mao and his idiots..

Etc

The point is obvious...many book burnings is part of our Human History...

But every time we do this...we reduce ourselves...sometimes with great consequences...other times not so great

I just saying to chime in...

Opi Rant #302.96

Come, we dig for Clams and Crabs...way better than digging for shit

[TheKentuckian]

1. We are better than that but this is purely token, there is no threat to the existence of the text

I got one here that is in no danger.
It is a big fuck you not setting torch to the library at Alexandria. It has the same vile flavor but not the substance.

It is symbolic.

[opihimoimoi]

2. Who the fuck said anything bout threat to text"? what a vile reply

[Igel]

3. Yes, it was.

Still, your examples are all of cases when the only extant texts of documents were destroyed. With many hundreds of millions of copies of the Qur'aan around, it's survival for a while is assured.

I'm more concerned with pulp and popular journals from the 1800s, things that are routinely removed from library because they take up space and aren't used; they're not always scanned.

Your examples, of course, could be multiplied. We have little idea of what the Berber's religion and folklore was prior to Islam. It was suppressed, just as various Semitic languages died under the onslaught of Arabic motivated by the spread of Islam. The Han have wiped out scores of ethnicities in the last thousand years. The Khoe-San are in sad shape, their traditions and culture a wreck of what it had been before the Bantu moved in. My interpretation instructor's "day job" was as a linguist in Mexico; her job was to go around and chronicle the destruction of local languages and folklore, documenting the languages and their then-current state as Spanish and the centralized education system overwhelmed them.

Lots of examples, not just those committed or aided by Europeans.

[opihimoimoi]

4. All this is part of the Human Social Evolution that is ongoing...

I just hope the current thingy does not get outta hand...