Conquerors have known that the greatest and simplest way to break the back of nations was to have them hang their writers and artists and desecrate their ancestral graves and buildings. Critics of coercive government point to the myriad regulations that make it very difficult for a private entity trying to preserve an archeological find. And with their coercive resources, when a mistake is made, whole regions are destroyed, as this dam that floods a whole region parched by another dam. By setting these systems in motion, the result is an accident that was waiting to happen. And thus what conquerors could not do to us with weapons, we allow to be done by indifferent decrees.
People live as dandelions on the earth.
When their glory is done, they go in a moment s breeze. But memory is there if we preserve it, a trust from those who came before us for those of future times who even now gaze upon us in trust from their cribs. They are a true inheritance that helps us stand proud in moments of defeat, wise and tall in moments of victory. How many of us seek to do what our great-descendants will remember, even if it is only a letter or a thought that gives them strength. We are told in one breath that child-abuse is the worst thing, then claim fathers are not needed.