A great deal
of main stream history is about the rise of empires. Much about the fall of
empires is usually related to the Roman Empire.
A little about the Persian Empire, the Mongolian empire is also out
there on so called history cable channels.
But speaking
mainly about History type channels that talk about the American Revolution and
the Civil War and World Wars One and Two are all about how we won. It is so
easy in retrospect and in the comfort of an armchair to plot the strategies of
success in hindsight.
Those strategies in many cases were trial and error and
paid for in blood and suffering by those directly involved as in an army or a navy
or collateral damage as in civilian casualties and death.
It is funny how a military word like Collateral has worked its way into our lexicon in recent years, with our military involvement overseas in rotting sand piles parked over vast reservoirs of petroleum etc.
It is funny how a military word like Collateral has worked its way into our lexicon in recent years, with our military involvement overseas in rotting sand piles parked over vast reservoirs of petroleum etc.
Some places
like Syria for example has fallen apart because of its location next to falling
apart government and geography in Iraq, Afghanistan etc. There is also the
falling apart of places like the smaller countries on the rim of the Saudi
Peninsula where religion mixed with politics is all there is or has ever been
since the Prophet Mohammed found the glue to bring some of the warring parties
and tribes together temporarily and centuries ago.
Syria has no oil and many are saying that the population fell apart over hunger caused by the mythical Global Climate Change denied by the Right wing pols.
Syria has no oil and many are saying that the population fell apart over hunger caused by the mythical Global Climate Change denied by the Right wing pols.
On a
tangent, the Islamic world has different and or subtle-ly different ideas of
the sacred and the profane. A mosque is a place of prayer and not a temple
filled with relics and statues as in Christianity and Hinduism. The building is used as a
public place when not in use for prayer.
This in not unlike the early use of Churches setting up in the corners
of Roman basilicas which were originally covered markets to conduct commerce or
court business out of the elements like rain or snow.
I saw in the
news recently that the Saudi government in charge of Mecca was going to move
the Tomb of the Prophet to accommodate a larger space for tourists to parade
around the Kaaba. Nothing sacred in a tomb in the founder of a world religion?
Anyway,
watching one of these pseudo history channels, they were throwing in a search
for the real Mount Sinai trying to prove that the bible is correct in that there
really was a Mt. Sinai etc. And then it hits me how the Christians have to
agree with the Jews on their history in order to shore up Christian mythology.
But the real crux of a religion history archeological type programming on a
military history channel also goes to prove that Israel has the right to exist
based on the man-made myths in the Hebrew – Greek Book aka the Bible.
When
following Moses setting up his empire and taking the land away from the natives
by force and blood it was because his desert god told him to do it. Whatever.
Nobody ever
mentions that ancient Israel as a political entity crashed and burned and was a failed almost extinct
religion by the time that the emperor god Constantine or one of his committees
resurrected the party line of the old religion to prop up another new designer
religion based on one of the later prophets called Jesus who may or may not
have existed around the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E..
Same thing
with the History Channel constantly churning out WWII footage about how great
and smart and powerful we (USA) were in defeating the Axis Powers. The
obsession though I think in all this WWII history stuff now that 95% WWII
veterans are dead is to show how to start an empire like Hitler. How easy it is
to lie and destroy and hurt and kill 50 million people who directly and
immediately indirectly died making his egotistical idea and dream building a
temporary political reality. He coulda been a contender – woulda, coulda,
shoulda.
Now where
did he go wrong is a very real theme of these shows shown on cable channels owned
by strange dark right wing billionaires who want their own little strange dark
empires which they are a building at the expense of the greater good of all the
people in a democracy?
Just saying.
That obsession with the building of empires does not prevent them from eventually
falling slowly or crashing and burning in plain sight for all to see. I prefer the crash and burn method of
downward spiral for tin plated political and financial gods who have no life
outside of their selfish dreams and obsession and mental disorders such as Narcissism
etc.
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