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https://victorhanson.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Hanson-Logo-1.png595200by Bruce S. Thornton RightNetwork.com We moderns have managed to combine an incredible mastery of technical knowledge and information with an astonishing ignorance of the traditional wisdom once possessed by an illiterate village elder, and evident for all to see on every page of history.