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<font face="2"><div align="center">An Angry Rant<br>
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<font face="3"><div align="right">Publisher's note: This text was recovered from the remnants of a burned down sanitarium. I do not know who wrote it, one of the inhabitants, or one of the healers or guards. The text was left unchanged therefore. While many readers will likely ask the question "does this piece of work speak of wisdom or madness?", there's no definite answer.<hr>

<font face="2"><div align="center">Truth<p>
<font face="5"><div align="left">There are no absolutes. No, not even in math. Well, math meeting the real world, that is. 50 + 50 = 100? Try mixing 50 ml of water with 50 ml of alcohol. You'll end up with about 98 ml. But that's beside the point. It's about opinions, understanding, and worst of all - knowledge.<br>
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It's easy to believe that there's a right, and there's a wrong. Unfortunately the world isn't as easy. Often it's more a tendency towards one of the other. Just a thought? No. The problem is that there are often no thoughts involved, only assumptions.<br>
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We're fixed in our own view of the world. Always evaluating what we see and experience to our terms of subjectivity. And then we expand them, externalize our views into all other people. It can't work.<hr>

<font face="2"><div align="center">Knowledge<p>
<font face="5"><div align="left">Yet there is hope. Not all is lost. That which can bring light into the darkness is knowledge. And self reflection. You won't gain knowledge if you don't observe yourself. You need to know when you're in danger of externalize your views into the minds of other, which may not be correct.<br>
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Could I write a book about the great achievements of Cyrodiil's navy? None would try to stop me, I guess. Except myself. I lack the necessary knowledge. I would only assume things. I'd have a tinted view. And there is danger in this.<br>
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Logic does not trump knowledge. Intelligence is necessary to gain knowledge, to understand the underlying mechanisms of our world. Nevertheless logic brings you only to a certain point, and this point is the limit of your knowledge. If you don't know what you're talking about, logic may lead you astray. 50 + 50 is not always 100.<hr>

<font face="2"><div align="center">Danger<p>
<font face="5"><div align="left">And that's where the biggest issue arise. Some are missing knowledge. Other are missing logic. A few are missing both. Yet they do not refuse to stay silent. They spread their poison, which they advertise as wisdom and insight. They disintegrate the very foundations of our society.<br>
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An example, perhaps? Imagine our cultural heritage. All myths, religious pamphletes, stories, romances, war reports, trivials and essays about world shattering events. There are some that want them all gone, destroy them, and prevent any chance to build upon another heritage.<br>
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You don't know what I'm talking about? There are three opinions running rampart, gaining more and more popularity. Simply because less people with knowledge or unbiased logic have the courage to stand up against them. I know I'm going to be vilified by what I'm going to do, but it has to be done. I will call them by name!<hr>

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<font face="2"><div align="center">Parlorists<p>
<font face="5"><div align="left">They think all pieces of works belongs to it's creator, and it's creator alone. We're not talking about monetary aspects here, no. Furthermore they don't see any work as important or part of a cultural treasure.<br>
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Imagine if the writer of "2920: Last Year Of The First Empire" would have decided that he doesn't like other authors, therefore rather remove his book from public? What a loss it would have been. A culture can only develop if there's a chance for development, which means that which is there shall not be removed. How would it be to reinvent the wheel time and again, each year, each month, maybe each week? You can't build onto something if the foundation is destroyed time and again.<hr>
<font face="2"><div align="center">Isolationists<p>
<font face="5"><div align="left">Ever tried to read "N'Gasta! Kvata! Kvakis!"? Did you understand a single word? No? I've guessed so. It's written in the Sload's tongue, which few on Tamriel except necromancers and Telvanni lords can decipher. To build up a cultural heritage there are some basic rules, which are not basic by force, but by knowledge and logic. Break them, and it's to the detriment of all.<br>
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Isolationists do just this. Even when done with good intentions they come over as evil pranks, or worse. Once a wizard try to demonstrate destruction magic by having it's book shoot rays of fire onto nearby objects, destroying whole libraries in the process.<br>
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<font face="4">Resulting to uncommon languages has a similar result. If all books are written in a different tongue, with different letters, who'll still be able to read only a few of them? None.<br>
<font face="5">I repeat the above, which was written in daedric letter to prove my point: Resulting to uncommon languages has a similar result. If all books are written in a different tongue, with different letters, who'll still be able to read them? None.<br>
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There are some rules, dictated by logic and knowledge everyone has to adhere to. Otherwise you'd create situations in which, of a full library, a visitor could only read a single book.<br>
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We can't stop them. It's their right to do so. Unfortunately. What we can, and should, do though is to call it out by it's name: Poison! Do not let it spread further. Support those actually helping you and all of our civilization by keeping in tune with basic rules of compatibility. Because that's what it comes down to: If you want to have your own little library to read, your mind and knowledge needs to be compatible towards them. Otherwise you end up with lost junk, like daedric writings or sload ramblings.
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<font face="2"><div align="center">Overlords<p>
<font face="5"><div align="left">With time, through experience and and logic we gain knowledge, may even become experts. Nevertheless we are still limited. I may be able to write, but I can't create a ship that wouldn't sink like a stone. Well, I haven't tried, but even if it doesn't sink, it'd be a far inferior ship.<br>
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Some writers do not understand this simple truth. They may be experts in mineralogy, and write great books about stones. Yet they refuse to keep it at that, expand their books with ramblings about meteorology, politics and biology. Some politicians do not write only a book about the current political situation, or essays on wars, but also about the mating habits of kagoutis and how to best serve a cold sujamma.<br>
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In the end, what they offer your library, or the people coming after us, is a work of wildly disparate qualities. Some really good, the aspects they actually know about. Some not so good. And some downright horrible. You can't really recommend anyone a book like this, because your friend will get the full package, unable to take only the good.<br>
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An artistic overlord is like a feudal overlord: He let's you swallow the few good with the lot of bad. Therefore he drags down not only his own work, by tainting it's great aspects with the terrible ones, but also your library. Your place is limited, and would you rather have one big book filling a whole shelve with lot of bilge in it? Or a collection of good books instead?<hr>

<font face="2"><div align="center">Choice<p>
<font face="5"><div align="left">In the end the choice is yours. Know that you can either support those trying to expand our culture and horizon, or those trying to disintegrate it. Be careful, and choose wisely. And, if you're in a position to act, act wisely. We need to carry on, otherwise we fall back into the Merethic Age.<br>
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<div align="right">Although one could argue that this is exactly what some do want.

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