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  • In Our Time The Written World
     OP - January 06, 2012, 09:42 AM
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/jan/04/in-our-time-radio-review

    Just heard how Captain Cooke asked if the tribes he met were able to act at a distance - through the use of books.  He had a phenomenal library with him, and many many ways to measure and record.

    Comparing this with my outsiders experience of Islam, I see children learning by heart a text in a foreign language.

    It is possibly the equivalent to a cargo cult - building an airfield but with no understanding of its purpose.

    Is it not very strange, this fixation on a very small group of texts that are interminably studied?  It is such a complete missing of the point of books and thinking and learning that I must ask - can it be just silliness and ignorance or is it deliberately malevolent to prevent thinking and emotion and freedom?
    When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.


    A.A. Milne,

    "We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
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