From: Bill Lucy 

In article ,
gary_wiltshire{at}compuserve.com says...

> I know what you mean, Bill, but look at what happened as literacy
> levels rose with the printed book and the industrial revolution.  Look
> at South Korea, Taiwan and goodly chunks of South America.
>
> It's much easier to keep a peasant population down when it's
> illiterate.

It's nice to see good old Algernon is out and about!

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