Been to Vatican. The whole "security" is laughable.
A group of dedicates mercs could just storm the place and take it over, if they wanted. They'd have to call the Italian police, carabinieri and military for help.
It's laughable how much power they have over historical information and are keeping it to themselves. Access to the Vat Lib is notoriously difficult, granted on manuscript basis only and only available to select few (mostly catholic researchers).
And the world allows them to keep this information embargo going. Makes you pause.
Ayh had a friend who accompanied a researcher years ago to read a document in the archives regarding some thing from just a few hundred years ago, very innocuous informstion, and the process ayh recall was absurdity for what is deemed a library. Took months for approval and again from memory, they prep it for retrieval.
It fascinates me to think if any one alive knows the contents of all that is there -- or if it has reached an infection point where the rules superseded memory and modern "librarians" just see most materials as off limits without context. "That room is off limits without papal authority". Why? "Just cuz." Which is very indicative of modern society.
One of my fav history related conspiracies.
Been to Vatican. The whole "security" is laughable.
A group of dedicates mercs could just storm the place and take it over, if they wanted. They'd have to call the Italian police, carabinieri and military for help.
It's laughable how much power they have over historical information and are keeping it to themselves. Access to the Vat Lib is notoriously difficult, granted on manuscript basis only and only available to select few (mostly catholic researchers).
And the world allows them to keep this information embargo going. Makes you pause.
Ayh had a friend who accompanied a researcher years ago to read a document in the archives regarding some thing from just a few hundred years ago, very innocuous informstion, and the process ayh recall was absurdity for what is deemed a library. Took months for approval and again from memory, they prep it for retrieval.
It fascinates me to think if any one alive knows the contents of all that is there -- or if it has reached an infection point where the rules superseded memory and modern "librarians" just see most materials as off limits without context. "That room is off limits without papal authority". Why? "Just cuz." Which is very indicative of modern society.