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Just a quick reminder for all those people getting a little depressed by the current world situation and its moronic evil, with all the usual unnecessary suffering of innocents and '****-tardery' going on....
Remember that we still live in the most peaceful and ciivilized time in all of human history!
The March of Human Progress:
Neolithic Age: The bound victims in the peat bogs and the teeth marks on the bones of the Anasazi should tell you all you need to know about the prehistoric period...there was art, and hope, and love, but the was also absolutely no notion of individual rights cannibalism, human child sacrfice, mutilation, inter tribal bloodbaths, and dirty primitive superstition (look up 'Muti' for an example)
Bronze Age: Read Homer or an account of Assyrian methods of warfare, or the Shang dynasty. The Bronze age was a time when people of all classes faced nearly unremitting brutality, massacres, castrations, enslavement, etc etc.
The Classical Age: The enlightened rule of 'only' slaughtering all males of military age and enslaving the rest. The time where crucifxion, being fed to animals, etc where entertainment and diversion for a malnurnourished, brutalised population of near-animals.
The Dark Age: Mass murder of unbelievers. Burning, torturing, drawing and quartering. The most unrelenting conformism in thought, opinion, dress, etc.
The Middle Ages: more of the same.
The Early Renaissance: The same but doubled and with a huge dose of Christian doublethink and hypocrisy added.
The Late Renaissance: The ideals of the humanists did not affect most people. The mass slaughter of indians and fellow europeans.
The Eighteenth Century: Christian hypocrisy replaced with Nationalist hypocrisy. Yaay! Even England, the most Enlightened nation, one must wade through corpses of babies and children on the way to work in 18th century England. Mass slaughter and starvation now justified for economic and nationalistic reasons rather than religion, also known as 'progess'.
19th Century: Except for the little matter of the napoleonic bloodbath, this is the age when Europeans tone down their wars. Medicine and the idea of 'rules' and 'fairness' make their first muddled appearance. Progress: Mass slaughter for economic and nationalistic reasons is transferred to non-European areas (largely. kinda. sorta.) Yaay!
20th Century: Ideology replaces the naked opportunism and 'realism' of the 19th century. largely. kinda . sorta. The 20th century is a century of unremitting, brutal war for the majority of the world, largely civil war. Progress: Massacres of innocents in millions for many reasons: Wearing eyeglasses (Cambodia), Being an unknowing, potential member of the International Zionist Conspiracy, Breathing While Ukrainian, etc etc etc etc
21 Century: Well, except for Darfur, and Iraq, and Chechnya, and...things are relatively fine! Innocent people die in the hundreds and thousands rather than the milllions. Now that's REAL PROGRESS.
Remember that we still live in the most peaceful and ciivilized time in all of human history!
The March of Human Progress:
Neolithic Age: The bound victims in the peat bogs and the teeth marks on the bones of the Anasazi should tell you all you need to know about the prehistoric period...there was art, and hope, and love, but the was also absolutely no notion of individual rights cannibalism, human child sacrfice, mutilation, inter tribal bloodbaths, and dirty primitive superstition (look up 'Muti' for an example)
Bronze Age: Read Homer or an account of Assyrian methods of warfare, or the Shang dynasty. The Bronze age was a time when people of all classes faced nearly unremitting brutality, massacres, castrations, enslavement, etc etc.
The Classical Age: The enlightened rule of 'only' slaughtering all males of military age and enslaving the rest. The time where crucifxion, being fed to animals, etc where entertainment and diversion for a malnurnourished, brutalised population of near-animals.
The Dark Age: Mass murder of unbelievers. Burning, torturing, drawing and quartering. The most unrelenting conformism in thought, opinion, dress, etc.
The Middle Ages: more of the same.
The Early Renaissance: The same but doubled and with a huge dose of Christian doublethink and hypocrisy added.
The Late Renaissance: The ideals of the humanists did not affect most people. The mass slaughter of indians and fellow europeans.
The Eighteenth Century: Christian hypocrisy replaced with Nationalist hypocrisy. Yaay! Even England, the most Enlightened nation, one must wade through corpses of babies and children on the way to work in 18th century England. Mass slaughter and starvation now justified for economic and nationalistic reasons rather than religion, also known as 'progess'.
19th Century: Except for the little matter of the napoleonic bloodbath, this is the age when Europeans tone down their wars. Medicine and the idea of 'rules' and 'fairness' make their first muddled appearance. Progress: Mass slaughter for economic and nationalistic reasons is transferred to non-European areas (largely. kinda. sorta.) Yaay!
20th Century: Ideology replaces the naked opportunism and 'realism' of the 19th century. largely. kinda . sorta. The 20th century is a century of unremitting, brutal war for the majority of the world, largely civil war. Progress: Massacres of innocents in millions for many reasons: Wearing eyeglasses (Cambodia), Being an unknowing, potential member of the International Zionist Conspiracy, Breathing While Ukrainian, etc etc etc etc
21 Century: Well, except for Darfur, and Iraq, and Chechnya, and...things are relatively fine! Innocent people die in the hundreds and thousands rather than the milllions. Now that's REAL PROGRESS.
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