There Is An Old Saying: In History

Information, Knowledge, Is Power. If You Can Control Information, You Can Control People.

In The Soviet Union It Was Illegal To Take A Photograph Of A Train Station. Look What Happened To Them. They Tried To Classify Everything.

What The Government Is Good At Is Collecting Taxes, Taking Away Your Freedoms And Killing People. It's Not Good At Much Else.

The Most Wounding Insult To An Educated Russian Was To Be Called Nekulturny-uncultured-yet The Same Men Who Sat In The Gilt Boxes At The Moscow State Opera Weeping At The End Of A Performance Of Boris Gudunov Could Immediately Turn Around And Order The Execution Or Imprisonment Of A Hundred Men Without Blinking. A Strange People, Made More Strange By Their Political Philosophy.

When You Have Stopped Learning You Have Begun To Die.