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a tool to aid forgetfulness 

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title: A Tool to Aid Forgetfulness
date: 2022-01-12
series: stories
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The Egyptian God Thoth lived in the Egyptian city of Naucratis. Thoth was the
inventor of many arts such as math and astronomy, but the most significant was
the invention of writing. Thoth showed writing to the king of Egypt, claiming
that it would make Egyptians wiser and give them better memories; that it it
would vastly improve both the memory and the wit of the Egyptian people.
The king replied: "Thoth, you invented this tool. As such you are not the best
one to judge such things. You have not created a tool to aid memory, you have
created a tool to aid forgetfulness. Learners will not use their memories, they
will blindly trust these sigils and not remember for themselves.
"You have discovered an aid to vague recollection, as the users of this tool
will not be given truth. They will only be given a semblance of truth.
"They will be hearers of many things and learners of nothing. They will appear
to know all the knowledge of the world yet when asked they will only be the
middleman to external forces that are trusted without verification. They will
know wisdom, but not truth."
Adapted from The Dialogues of Plato in Five Volumes, 3rd ed. Oxford
University, 1892. Vol. 1 pp. 483-489.