Quote:
hertz vanrental wrote
To write things down because they are true is no motivation whatsoever. There's no benefit from this alone.
Back in the day when the various texts, which comprise the babble, were written, writing materials such as pens, ink and the writing medium (vellum, papyrus etc.), weren't cheap. Writing skills were't in abundant supply either. So, creating texts was a time consuming and expensive process. To engage in such tasks would require pay back. Truth is no pay back at all. Power and wealth are.
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That is an excellent point. I think of the ubiquity of information these days and forget that the rarity of both physical mediums and literacy itself back then really was a force multiplier of the power of religious edict and myth. No wonder it had such power then and no wonder it holds such little power today. Except among the christards and their weak-minded ilk of course