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Recently I've been doing a deep swoop into pre-history, the aceramic period and that stuff that lies beyond the invention of writing, or at to the lowest degree our knowing it was invented, which is non precisely the same.

As a digression: 1 of the things that has me highly amused is that, having bought a scattershot of books on the field of study, every bit I always do at the commencement of a "reading-require" I find those fifty-fifty from the nineties are grossly outdated as new discoveries and studies invalidate them. And all discoveries and studies seem to push the "invention of ten" further into the past. And so, we'll see.

As a second digression: yes, this is probably for writing, though I uncertainty the fruits will exist this year. This kind of obsessive reading on a subject usually — unless it'due south for a known series already started — takes a year or so to come up to fruition. I suspect it's related to my sword and sandal fantasy and besides perchance — sideways — to the multiworld saga that would showtime with (I've posted bits) "Jump, the mirror said." Because information technology involves ancient/lost multiworld civilisation.

Now back to the topic at hand.

The left, and some libertarians, have the bizarre idea that going back to the time before civilisation will somehow bring about a paradise with perfect health, no law-breaking, no individual belongings, and everyone living in harmony.

Granted the libertarians put that on "the nomadic past" i.e. the time without governments. I yield to no one in my hatred for government and politicians in general, but making the supposition that nomadic groups didn't have despots is a bit of wishful thinking. Of course, they had, if nothing else tribe/family leaders. What nosotros have found already — and I want to point out hither the reason it flips so much decade to decade is that what we've found is at best a minuscule portion of all the deposits from the time, themselves a minuscule percentage of what humans might have lived at the time –dispels this thought very thoroughly.

Turns out that humans were still humans, even in pre-history, and weren't in fact the stuff of angels. And btw, those who say they were healthier…. No. They died younger. The oldest we've found are in their early sixties (ESTIMATED. I doubtable they were younger) and most are much younger. The ones who are older were the creme de la creme of resources and beingness taken care of.

But what got to me, and caused me to put bated the volume on the normadic cultures of western Eurasia/Eastern Europe until I tin cope with information technology better was the casual disregard for humans as individuals. And for homo life.

I don't call up whatsoever modernistic can fully understand how thoroughly your life as an individual didn't count in those days, in that place.

Take the horrors of the 20th century and and then make the disregard stronger.

What got to me was the kurgans of scythians. The level of wrong.

Expect, I understand killing the wives/concubines of the slap-up principal when he died, and burial them with him. Yep, it seems cruel to u.s.a., and the British banned it in India, and that'south good on them, but retrieve about it, volition you? In pre-historic conditions it was probably merciful or probably started that way.

In barbarous conditions, where body-forcefulness matters, widows and abandoned women are prey. Widows of an influential leader some of whose power can be acquired past marrying them are doubly so. Absent dying "with their Lord" these women would have had a sad and scary life for the rest of their days. Unless they were very very lucky.

(And for the foaming at the oral fissure types, since I'm finding a lot of them amidst the young "Merely why did women and not men suffer this way." Because biology. Testosterone, upper body strength, etc. give men advantages you lot can't every match in "normal living". When I was immature and in good shape, I could still be beaten by any teen male child, no matter how burrow potatoey, okay. You tin can't defection confronting biological science. You can try, but y'all'll only be lying to yourself.)

For the record, if information technology needs to be stated: I disapprove of widow sacrifice. Simply I can see where it was at one time, perhaps — or at to the lowest degree considered — the merciful thing to practise.

Less understandable is the killing of horses and dogs, which I understand aren't human, but are, equally Heinlein put it "animals who were brought upward to think they are people." Those got killed in large wanton lots, and considering they were wealth and rare wealth at the time, they also break my centre.

Just worse was the ritual 1 twelvemonth afterward the great principal's burial, in which 100 immature men (not slaves. Non that their beingness slaves would be better, but at to the lowest degree as strangers it would be more understandable) were selected AND KILLED with 100 prime number horses, and their bodies assembled with the horses, and so they appeared to exist riding in an honor baby-sit around the Kurgan.

I tin't come upwards with a reason for that. NONE. Each of these young men was a living, individual human being being, brought to maturity at a fourth dimension when that was a difficult battle considering of illnesses and accidents in a harsh time.

And they were killed, for display….

When I got to the process of preparing horse and young man corpse to mount equally a rotting statue, my brain glitched and I imagined a craft board in the 21st century. "Hi, nosotros're working on the Kurgan of keen male monarch Blah Apathetic, and nosotros plant if you empty the horse'south bellies of all viscera and pack them with herbs and spices, it makes the whole less smelly, and retards the rotting, and so the equus caballus stays up longer. Now, the stake you put through the equus caballus to hold the rider in place: you should put it through–"

And that'south when I closed the book to allow information technology chill a while.

But…. What you lot have to empathise is that this is "the natural man."

The natural man considers other men over whom he has say-so equally disposable for…. demented displays.

Information technology has taken over two thousand years of civilization, and a little known (at the commencement) religion from a modest tribe in the middle East to change u.s.a., then that we flinch at that description.

A bit of our squeamishness has bled through to other cultures, and yes, China and other radically not-Western cultures could even so meet making the above brandish for any reason or none, but at least they endeavor to hide it, because they have some sense united states, silly westerners, would exist squeamish about that wanton waste material of homo lives.

But make no mistake, that particular beast, the natural impulses of human being, are always in that location, seeking to break through.

The first apply we fabricated of the ability to keep good records, have good transportation, and mass processes of whatsoever sort, resulted in the abatoirs of the 20th century.

The only — But — bullwark we have against crafts with corpses nosotros killed for display is Western Culture, what remains of it.

The left, in their song lust for collectivism and to abolish Western Civilization in all its forms thinks they'll bring near paradise, when what rides at their heels is hell.

That too is a very old temptation, a very sometime expose.

Ladies and gentlemen of the weblog, people of good will, this is why we fight. Nosotros fight to learn, pass on, transmit and uphold the much maligned Western Civilization.

Yep, it had ridiculous and horrible episodes, but non compared to everything else.

And thus we fight, on boards others have rotted, over an unimaginable abyss. We try to rebuild equally we fight and not to skid on the fallacies accumulated by past generations.

Because the abyss is indeed that deep. So deep and dark, finding the way back up would have millennia.

So, fight my friends, and expect up, not downwardly.

It's a long, long way to fall.

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