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"It is written."

With those words, both the authority and permanence of the written word was established.

This authority was based on the principle that whatever is written does not change with the passage of time, thanks primarily to the function of paper.

In an age where things are written or recorded in digitized formats, it is always easy to change or alter the original, and this has become a point of great concern. Changing, deleting, or altering documents and recordings of the past amounts to creating a false history.

In the digital virtual world, this process is made relatively effortless and can be used to advance current agendas incompatible with history's reality. We can see this clearly in the on-line 'fake news' narratives of the Left.

Of course, this is nothing new to our era. Even in the past when paper was the predominant medium on which records, stories, and other historical events were recorded, accounts of royalty, governments, and religious authorities destroying such records and re-writing the histories of their time are surprisingly common.

There are many on-line voices now emerging who are warning against today's destruction of historical records - from what 'is written' to what has been produced and recorded by other technologies, like music, movies, documentaries, television shows, films, videos, etc.

Together, they are urging the public to buy and preserve physical copies of paper books, and to own physical copies of other media, such as DVD discs, video tapes, audio tapes, vinyl recordings, hard drives, etc., even though dependent on older and changing technologies.

"Books are civilization's memories and once printed on paper cannot be changed," observes Glenn Beck, while King Trout expresses the same sentiment towards other technologies in physical form: "Physical media is not just about plastic discs, it's an archive of human history."

Like computers and other various technologies capable of recording or transmitting information, paper too is an advanced technology, one that happens to possess a significant advantage over the other technologies. What is written on paper cannot simply be changed or altered at the push of a button, or made obsolete due to changing technologies, or rendered inaccessible due to power outages.

That's what continues to make paper the medium that is Just Right for the establishment of any objective authority and physical permanence on which "it is written."