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What was forgotten in the Great Forgetting was the fact that, before the advent of agriculture and village life, humans had lived in a profoundly different way.…Paleontology made untenable the idea that humanity, agriculture, and civilization all began at roughly the same time.

— Daniel Quinn The Story of B (1996)

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In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can’t be found on a shelf in the public library.

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