Addend 13—Urban Tyranny
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There are
a number of reasons why Western history, a sort of Holy Ghost inspired of
Western governments, will be loathed by all coming after us.
The
foremost reason is that historians have very seldom been independent creatures,
but unlike the 1% of poets who resist dictators, have 100% succumbed to
government dictates as to what history ought to read. While only a small number
may actually record the lie for the record, after it has been put on record,
all historians follow it once it is fait
accompli and ‘out there’.
However,
it is important to remember that history as a lie began with the development of
the city or, if you will, urbanism. It is not only that the city claims to be
the birthplace of ‘democracy’ (that city being Athens in ‘ancient’ Greece), which
is an urbanite fantasy, but that the city went on to become the enslaver of today’s
countryside populations, dictator of public morals, and dispenser of a
kleptocrat ‘democracy’.
The story
of how biocentered humans were replaced by humanists http://www.thefreedictionary.com/humanism
is a long and complex story, but it certainly began with certain human beings
thinking and declaring themselves superior to the majority. This ‘certain
number’ began with a military leader, very probably of Viking origin (as I have
explored it in a number of previous blogs), who having become accustomed to robbing
innocent tribes and ordering his men to their deaths no longer found it
difficult or unusual to order men and women to become his slaves. The easiest
example of this ‘overcoming’ is illustrated to this day by fathers taking their
sons on a hunt and encouraging them to overcome ‘buck fever’, squeeze the
trigger, and make a kill.
Contrary
to pop history that argues that castles began to be built in ancient times, in
most places they are not much older than a thousand years http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castles_in_Great_Britain_and_Ireland and most were built in a wood http://www.kuriositas.com/2012/07/biaowieza-forest-remarkable-remnant-of.html
, even if it was on a mountain surrounded by a wood or an island surrounded by
water and wood, as military forts in the U.S. illustrate the logic.
As
militarist cultures spread, castles became centers of deforestation, as weapons
of close range combat were replaced by rifles and cannon, and the loss of wood made the field of battle more
visible and the attacker more vulnerable. Of course, this also came to be
reflected in increased warfare, in which case the peasants sought refuge inside
the castle, were the males were recruited to serve as defenders of the walls,
while the women became the objects of pleasure of princes, and--given that
medals were not yet invented--young damsels were pressed into service to jerk
off outstanding warriors. The stories of ‘camp followers’, i.e. whores who
offered sex through genital contact is very likely a modern fib, as princes
would not tolerate the rape of women in their castles who then bore sons and
daughters to men of the wood. The modern fib is basically a pornographic story
likely an invention of corporate condom makers whose profits depend on the
fantasy of genital contact. Of course, this is not to say that rape did not
occur, but genital contact was that of privileged princes or outstanding
warriors in the event they were to become human sacrifices at Saturnalia or
other rites.
Eventually,
as some families of the wood and the countryside came to live along the walls
of fortresses, these settlements evolved into cities, until there came a time,
when the men of these evolving cities became merchants, gathered for themselves
capital, and began to pretend to be as privileged as the princes and barons
gathered about the princely court.
As French
author Paul Virillio in his book, “A Landscape of Events”, describes Paris Paris
Such
technological improvements have not ceased, but continue to amaze us. Virillio
goes on to quote Michael Heim, a cyberspace thinker from California
Who
become the ‘unabandoned’? Surely the 1%; who else can it be?
As the
intrusion of the National Security Agency (NSA) into everyone’s private lives proves, the monster is feeling
no longer vulnerable to biocentered humankind, that part of us known as “a part
of the population”. Even Virillio’s critical powers fail him, as he
determinately defends the monster with words worthy to become one of the
advisors (then) to President Busch: “We now find ourselves faced with a model
of ‘organized terrorism…that…. Inaugurates the age of nuclear proliferation.’”
(p19-21) Virillio is shocked over the terrorist attack against the World Trade Center in New
York
Thus,
here and at this time begins the Age of Modern Tyranny and total failure of the
humanist mind, which fails to recognize that democracy is not an invention of
urbanism, but of the wood and countryside. Yet the ‘rational’ mind now offers
the following solution for our troubles:
In a
Washington Post article, we see the humanist mindset post this absurdity: “…two Dartmouth College researchers are
suggesting that in some limited circumstances, the cooling value of an open,
snowy field may be greater than the climate benefits that a stand of trees can
provide — and that it is possible to calculate where that might be the case.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/could-cutting-down-some-trees-help-cool-the-planet/2013/12/14/af721aaa-6420-11e3-aa81-e1dab1360323_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines
No less, at the end of the article, a Harvard ‘senior ecologist’ (for shame!)
seconds these wonks.
All that I can add is that the urbanite
mindset has forgot that their forebears lived in the wood and enjoyed some real
democracy, because when some princes or barons pretended to have more rights
than they, they were terrorized by dreams that a shaman or graduate of the wood
stood behind every tree with a club or a spear in hand and was about to dispense
a whack at them.
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