You want to gain lasting fame as an historian?
Decipher Quipu!
Libertarians, My Libertarians!
Cruel to be kind means that I love you . Because, while I think you are mistaken, your hearts are in the right place -- yes, even you, Silas -- unlike some people . This Breitbart fellow (discussed in the link above), by all appearances, deliberately doctored a video of Shirley Sherrod to make her remarks appear virulently racist, when they had, in fact, the opposite import. I heard that at a recent Austrian conference, some folks were talking about "Callahan's conservative turn." While that description is not entirely inaccurate, I must say that a lot of these people who today call themselves conservative give me the heebie-jeebies.
I don't think Quipu is decipherable because from what I've heard, it's just a memorization tool that Incan priests/beauracrats used to memorize large amounts of information. As such, Quipu doesn't really store any information and is merely a tool that used to help store information. The closest analogy I can think of is picture cards that some people used to help them memorize speeches. The cards themselves don't contain the speech, only cues that help the speaker remember the speech.
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