Memory Gaps in The Memory Hole
May. 12th, 2006 10:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mlerulesDunno why 'xactly I'm travelling yet again down this path, or why it matters to me 'nuff to point out that I don't know, 'cept I like tracking trains of thought as they emerge from tunnels of reflection. Also dunno which tracks they'll shift to at the *whassitcalled...equivalent in train terms to cross-roads?*, 'cause really, that's unimportant. What's important is they keep travelling on or at least bits of 'em do, sending sparks flying, 'causing fires at times...no cause for alarm, just spreading the virus of thought like wildfire, which is a good thing, IMNSHO.
Somewhere in my olde file/list of Favorites aka Links aka Bookmarks I've got the link to the specific section of The Memory Hole (http://www.thememoryhole.org/) wherein is mirrored some of the Education Research & Stuff They took down b'c it didn't mesh w/No Child Left Behind. Truth goes further than what matches a political agenda. And it lasts longer. IF'n it can be found/rediscovered...
Hell, 'twas high school when we read John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty" and Milton's "Areopagitica"...our group was assigned the bit of the latter w/the great line about Truth always outing in an open battle 'tween truth and falsehood...'kay, just found it again: "Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?" Yes yes yes blah blah blah re: lack of Free Press and decrease in possibilities for a free and open encounter...yet we're talking on-line (or at least I am...perhaps discussion will result from the monologue).
You may recall that "Areopagitica" was John Milton's impassioned speech to the English parliament in favor of unlicenced printing (majorly anti-censorship) aka free press. Here's a link to the whole thing: http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/areopagitica.html
Another bit I still love, which still rings true: "...our faith and knowledge thrives by exercise, as well as our limbs and complexion. Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition. A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the Assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy."
John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty" (http://bartelby.org/130/) is a discourse on Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual.
Trouble is w/all this is that if'n truth is buried/hidden inside a pile of data, it can take tons of time and energy to unearth the gold from the dross, to cull the wheat from the chaff (just to keep metaphors together and on-track for a change...confuse 'em by not being quite SO confusing for once). And since you cannot search for this info at The Memory Hole itself (search function not up and running yet), it's essentially gone 'less you've saved it yourself. Luckily I have. Unluckily it's not easily available to me b'c I'm a techno tyro now.
I see, up in the left-hand corner of my Desktop, a file labeled Favorites.html. I think I'm supposed to in-or-ex-port it to...somewhere...so the whole long-@ss list appears when I click on Bookmarks. So, I have access to chunks of hidden good truth...but don't have the capacity to retrieve it...hell, mebbe I do...and I certainly know folks who do. So if'n anyone feels like sharing the secret, hipping me to the program, I'd appreciate it muchly. I'll even post the direct link once I disgorge it.
Somewhere in my olde file/list of Favorites aka Links aka Bookmarks I've got the link to the specific section of The Memory Hole (http://www.thememoryhole.org/) wherein is mirrored some of the Education Research & Stuff They took down b'c it didn't mesh w/No Child Left Behind. Truth goes further than what matches a political agenda. And it lasts longer. IF'n it can be found/rediscovered...
Hell, 'twas high school when we read John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty" and Milton's "Areopagitica"...our group was assigned the bit of the latter w/the great line about Truth always outing in an open battle 'tween truth and falsehood...'kay, just found it again: "Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?" Yes yes yes blah blah blah re: lack of Free Press and decrease in possibilities for a free and open encounter...yet we're talking on-line (or at least I am...perhaps discussion will result from the monologue).
You may recall that "Areopagitica" was John Milton's impassioned speech to the English parliament in favor of unlicenced printing (majorly anti-censorship) aka free press. Here's a link to the whole thing: http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/areopagitica.html
Another bit I still love, which still rings true: "...our faith and knowledge thrives by exercise, as well as our limbs and complexion. Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition. A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the Assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy."
John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty" (http://bartelby.org/130/) is a discourse on Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual.
Trouble is w/all this is that if'n truth is buried/hidden inside a pile of data, it can take tons of time and energy to unearth the gold from the dross, to cull the wheat from the chaff (just to keep metaphors together and on-track for a change...confuse 'em by not being quite SO confusing for once). And since you cannot search for this info at The Memory Hole itself (search function not up and running yet), it's essentially gone 'less you've saved it yourself. Luckily I have. Unluckily it's not easily available to me b'c I'm a techno tyro now.
I see, up in the left-hand corner of my Desktop, a file labeled Favorites.html. I think I'm supposed to in-or-ex-port it to...somewhere...so the whole long-@ss list appears when I click on Bookmarks. So, I have access to chunks of hidden good truth...but don't have the capacity to retrieve it...hell, mebbe I do...and I certainly know folks who do. So if'n anyone feels like sharing the secret, hipping me to the program, I'd appreciate it muchly. I'll even post the direct link once I disgorge it.
