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A Barn-Raising from Doc

Doc Searls: "Proposed: A barn-raising for civilization:"

"The art historian and archaeologist John Malcolm Russell on The Connection... just called the sacking of Baghdad's museums The greatest catastrophe ever to befall a cultural institution in the history of the world. More than the burning of the library in Alexandria? This guy is in a position to know. Long after everything else from this war is forgotten... this is the one thing that people will remember, he says. Well, I'm thinking, we're part of civilization, too, presumably -- "we" being everybody in the world who goes to the trouble of making it better."

"So here's an idea for the U.S. and British governments, for Coalition Forces, for anybody else in a position of authority in Iraq right now -- plus the rest of us who care..." (read the rest)