Modern “education” imposed upon traditional cultures (e.g. Gaelic, Indian, Polynesian, American Indian) is only less deliberately, not less actually, destructive than the Nazi destruction of Polish libraries, which was intended to wipe out their racial memories; the Germans acted consciously, but we who Anglicize or Americanize or Frenchify are driven by a rancor that we do not recognize and could not confess. This rancor is, in fact, our reaction to a superiority that we resent and therefore would like to destroy. -Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, The Bugbear of Literacy
Fortunately, Mars has none of this...yet. However, as Rover just showed us it does have trash. Earth trash. Scraps of aluminum shredded from other space missions. Stuck in the rocks like chicken in your teeth after a visit to Kentucky Fried. Progress.
Modern “education” imposed upon traditional cultures (e.g. Gaelic, Indian, Polynesian, American Indian) is only less deliberately, not less actually, destructive than the Nazi destruction of Polish libraries, which was intended to wipe out their racial memories; the Germans acted consciously, but we who Anglicize or Americanize or Frenchify are driven by a rancor that we do not recognize and could not confess. This rancor is, in fact, our reaction to a superiority that we resent and therefore would like to destroy.
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Fortunately, Mars has none of this...yet. However, as Rover just showed us it does have trash. Earth trash. Scraps of aluminum shredded from other space missions. Stuck in the rocks like chicken in your teeth after a visit to Kentucky Fried. Progress.
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