From: Gary Wiltshire 

On Thu, 18 May 2000 16:50:27 -0500, Bill Lucy  wrote:
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>So they only way a person can be "free" is if they are literate?
>
>That's rather a strange definition.
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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.

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