The salient mystery of Dark Ages sets the stage for mass amnesia. People living in vigorous cultures… — Jane Jacobs
The salient mystery of Dark Ages sets the stage for mass amnesia. People living in vigorous cultures typically treasure those cultures and resist any threat to them. How and why can a people so totally discard a formerly vital culture that it becomes vitally lost?
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