myrmepropagandist on Nostr: "They started publishing books of their own. The opened many printing presses and ...

"They started publishing books of their own. The opened many printing presses and many paper mills and they made books even more common than they already were. They even gave most of these new books away for free."
"I don't understand. How could making even more books be worse than burning them?"
"Think about it."
"Were the books all propaganda?"
"Yes. Yes, many of them were, but some of them were not."
"Then how did it work?"
"The new books were made by coping scraps from the old."

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