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-{{http://i.imgur.com/0JnTE5g.jpg|Burning of the Library of Alexandria}} +{{ http://i.imgur.com/0JnTE5g.jpg|black and white illustration of the Burning of the Library of Alexandria}}**Jan. 24, 2015:** In the [[tywau|TYWAU]] thread, a nonny [[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/121274.html?thread=622159802#cmt622159802|ranted]] about //“people (usually on Tumblr) crying about the destruction of the Library of Alexandria as if they had a personal stake in it. Is ‘I care about the preservation of knowledge’ really such a virtuous and controversial badge to wear?”//
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-**Jan. 24, 2015:** In the [[w/page/57272115/Things%20You%20Wouldn%27t%20Admit%20Unanon|TYWAU]] thread, a nonny [[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/121274.html?thread=622159802#cmt622159802|ranted]] about //“people (usually on Tumblr) crying about the destruction of the Library of Alexandria as if they had a personal stake in it. Is ‘I care about the preservation of knowledge’ really such a virtuous and controversial badge to wear?”//+
  
 They listed out the reasons that the library was probably not as big a loss as commonly imagined, stated that the destruction of the Library of Baghdad set the Islamic Golden Age and Western Europe’s scientific revolution much further back, and referred to the type of person who would argue otherwise as //“some kind of, I dunno, knowledge hipster?”// They listed out the reasons that the library was probably not as big a loss as commonly imagined, stated that the destruction of the Library of Baghdad set the Islamic Golden Age and Western Europe’s scientific revolution much further back, and referred to the type of person who would argue otherwise as //“some kind of, I dunno, knowledge hipster?”//
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