In dystopian times such as these lets not forget the most successfully brainwashed generation of all time, though some younger gens are definitely making a run at the crown.
@mtgreenee Just think how nice it would be if we had a congress person that believe these things instead of a congress lady
that quit cuz they're little b****
Around 1000 AD, monks on the Silk Road sealed a hidden chamber in a cliff face.
Inside were 50,000 manuscripts. They disappeared from history.
The Mogao Caves at Dunhuang had been a centre of Buddhist learning for six centuries, where pilgrims and merchants crossing the Gobi left texts in Chinese, Tibetan, Sanskrit, Sogdian, and Hebrew. Among them was the Diamond Sutra, printed in 868 AD, the oldest dated printed book on Earth.
Nobody knows why the chamber was sealed. Perhaps an invading army was coming. Perhaps the monks knew their world was ending. They left no names and no explanation.
But the wall held. For 900 years, through conquest, abandonment, and the slow burial of the caves in sand, nobody found it.
Then, in 1900, a penniless caretaker noticed a crack behind a fresco and broke through into a room.
It was stacked floor to ceiling with the lost library of the Silk Road.
We still have no idea who the monks were. History does not always record its guardians.
Today in @JudiciaryGOP, I expressed support for the Congressional Records Protection Act, but it should go further.
We should recognize that the Fourth Amendment requires judicial warrants to protect the privacy of all Americans.