Philippe Verdy <verd...@wanadoo.fr> wrote: |Another bad day for cultures, and in this case for old scripts.
Oh yes. I personally do still suffer whenever i recall the demolition of the Buddhas of Bamiyan, and i think this is a spectacular pain that will last. I never saw them in real life. Of course there is «When you point one finger, there are three fingers pointing back to you.» In no way do i defend ISIS or the Taliban, nor would i ever have supported them. Regarding philosophy and culture… everything such a shame. Some «sapiens sapiens» materialization… in the plain existence of Unicode. --steffen