Burning Libraries
- Kind
- Magazine Article
- Date
- Winter 1999
- Publisher
- Whole Earth
- Retrieved
- Jan 3, 2012
1 meme from this reference
Revolutions That Break with the Past Fail
Starting anew with a clean slate has been one of the most harmful ideas in history. It treats previous knowledge as an impediment and imagines that only present knowledge deployed in theoretical purity can make real the wondrous new vision. Thus the French Revolution of 1789, the Russian Revolution of 1917, and the…