Rewriting History

James Doogue

Re-writing history certainly was the standard approach for ​ conquerers. After visiting Cusco a while back, I remember thinking how sad it was that the Spannish attempted to demolish the existance of the Incas by razing a city and rebuilding in the Spanish way. Their catholic Cathedral used the massive and precisly cut granite blocks which supported the Inca temple for its founda​​​​​t​io

Tim replies:

James Doogue - excellent points James!

I live in the city of St. Louis, which used to be called Mound City. It was so nicknamed because there were all sorts of mounds built by the Mound Builder culture, a civilization that dominated the American Midwest prior to Columbus. Their capital was in Illinois, just across the river from the current St. Louis, a place now called Cahokia. Cahokia was larger than London in the year 900! They had an impressive civilization. Their biggest mound - and the center of the city - was named Monks Mound later, and it is like a small mountain in the flat lowlands of southern Illinois. Quite an insprational view! And a whole village of people was built halfway up the mound after the fall. It's huge!

But when the city of St. Louis was settled the mounds were just an annoyance; they bulldozed them all down. There is just one mound left in St. Louis. The ancient culture that spawned it was nearly forgotten.

You are right; while colonization was the end of their culture many times it brought something better too. Yes, slavery was ubiquitous in the New World prior to the coming of the Europeans, contrary to what the Left tries to teach. Cannibalism was not that uncommon either. The Karankawa were well known cannibals and were as much a part of why the Spaniards never really settled Texas. The Caribe' were known to enjoy a little human meat too (which is why the Tainu and other such Carribean tribes welcomed the Spanish; they wanted them as allies against the cannibals.)

The Aztecs and Mayans and Incans all practiced human sacrifice. And they weren't sacrificing their own people but those they conquered.

There was ar eason why the Conquistadores had such an easy time of it; they had plenty of allies who wanted their overlords gone.

I agree James; it's the enemy within. The whole point is they want to rewrite history and remake civilization along lines they think are better (and most of what they promote was tried and failed in the past.)

I would argue Leftism is a Christian heresy. It's Christianity without Christ - or God. The Left has stolen the ideals of Christianity but removed the religious aspects and promote a kind of parody. Those who promote it are desperate as they do not believe in an afterlife or any sort of ultimate justice and so must be "the ones we have been waiting for" as Obama put it. And it must happen here and now. It's utopianism with a large measure of desperation. They can't bear the idea that they will leave this world without their project being completed, or at least well underway.

They are trying to create a paradise on Earth. But this world is not cut out for paradise. It never will be - which is a sore point with them. They believe in the perfectability of Man and of Nature.

So they MUST tear down the old and utterly erase it so that the  New Man is born. It's basically the Protestant Christian view of being born again.

It is actually a most dangerous and energizing form of paganism. A worship of Man and Man's Will.

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