[schmidtleonard]

History of non-european printing press development: cool!

Summary of above: cool and useful!

Example based on the above: cool and insightful!

Slamming someone for using a european example because that's what they know: not cool, not insightful, not useful.

[h2zizzle]

I don't know the history. That would be the source of my discontent. Every time things like this come up, the hyperfocus on Western experience erases whatever insight could have been gained by looking at the topic in its totality. My guess is that whatever dynamic the history of the printing press in the East might have lent to this conversation wasn't even considered until I brought it up. That was my contribution.

Please don't take out your embarrassment on me.