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>> This is pretty simple-minded stuff. Thank you. I try to explain the concepts as simply as I can so they can't
be easily twisted by the intellectual elite. >> Do you think we should smash up the British
>> Museum or the Louvre for the same reason? Not really. In the West we are lucky. We can
have our past, and work towards our future as well. The PC crowd
continually try to drag us back to the dark ages of Collectivism and
subsistence living, but overall we do pretty well. Iraqis don't (or at least
haven't had) that choice, the future is (hopefully) better than the past. >> Heritage artefacts are gifts for us and the future. They help us to understand
>> who we are and where we've been. >> Most heritage artefacts do little to influence modern
ideology. In your safe, developed Western world that is largely true. In the back-looking
repressive corners of the world it is patently false. >> Nobody in
>> England says we should live like the Pharohs just because the British Museum
>> has mummies in it. But many Muslim clerics
follow a similar line of reasoning. Nostalgia isn't what is used to be. And it never was. The good-old-days are here now. And they always have been.
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