[Milsurplus] OT Aerospace Archive to Donate

[Bruce Gentry]

I also believe many companies don't want anyone to remember the 
excellent products they made in the past and expect that kind of quality 
and service today.  Employers and supervisors of today don't want the 
workers to know about or embrace quality. By keeping them in the dark, 
it is easy to get them to play along with the rush to the bottom.  
Trying to devise ways to destroy all history and discourage study is 
critical for their agenda.

   Bruce Gentry,      KA2IVY                                      "Don't 
Stop Believing"

David Stinson wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Feher" <n4fs at eozinc.com>
>
>   
>> As Jim said, it is only stuff. 
>> People are what is really  important ....
>>     
>
> Respectfully, Mike- 
> You're correct, and "people" is my point; they are what 
> counts, and who a distinctive people and culture are 
> is defined by their history, and that history is embodied
> in their documents and artifacts.  Without their "stuff,"
> they're just more anonymous faces in the herd.
>
> One need not build gas chambers to commit "genocide."
> Ask Native Americans about the "civilizing acts" of 
> the 1800s; the "stuff" they used to define themselves-
> medicine bundles, totems, talismans that had carried 
> their memories and stories in some cases for centuries,
> were put to the fire.  Their children were removed to 
> what was then the equivailent of our political re-education
> camps (read "colleges") and forced to "learn about the 
> future, not the past."   With the destruction of the artifacts
> that defined them as a distinctive culture and people,
> whole nations and peoples effectively ceased to exist,
> absorbed into today's dull, gray lemming herd, with only
> vague shadows and fragmentary memories of what 
> made them a unique people.
> And they are not alone- Ask the old Soviets about
> the peoples they erased.   Ask the Romans and
> the Egyptions.  Ask the modern Afgans about their
> attempt to erase the Buddist past in their land.
>
> Most stuff is, indeed, just "stuff;"  I sincerely hope that
> no copies of "American Idol" survive to shame our time.
> But documentation of the progress of technology,
> and especially that of progress in space exploration,
> is special to Western civilization; 
> the rest of Mankind steals most of it from us.
> It defines us as a people.  Sending it to the flames
> is a shortsighted and stupid crime; an abomination.  
> If you could corner one of the little Napoleons in
> the establishment who decided "individuals can't 
> have any of it" and asked them to justify that policy,
> they could not give you a reasoned reply; they will 
> invent lame excuses or quote even more arcane 
> and pointless regulations which, 
> when all the horse crap is washed away,
> really mean:  "I'm in charge and I say so, pissant."
> The VP mentioned is a minion of that plague, which
> will certainly plunge Mankind into the next Dark Age:
> an educated idiot in a postion of authority.
>
> 73 DE Dave AB5S
>
>
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