"For thousands of years, the people who became the European aristocrats have hated freedom. They have hated decency because they are indecent. They have hated peace because they are war profiteers. War has been nearly continuous amongst the various cliques and interest groups amongst the Europeans since Anno Domini 1337."
I have long held that the pyramids of human hierarchies are inverted, that those now considered on 'the top' are actually at the bottom, that the decent and good ordinary folk are truly the top of the hierarchy. The ordinary person has no driving need to rule over others, or to employ violence against his fellow man, or some need to pervert or degrade or destroy. Those at the 'top' of the hierarchy demonstrate these terrible propensities in spades. Why then do we consider murderous kings or 'aristocrats' or religious leaders as 'above' us? We are not laying all the hurt, we ordinary people are not taking control of all the resources, regular folks don't write rules that cripple anyone's chances of generating wealth in business. It is the elites of human societies who regularly demonstrate the worst of human behavior, not the ordinary folk.
The Epochs of American History a set of 3 volumes exposes the "Plantations" and the companies, and of course their "Charters"-Constitutions....The first one The Colonies 1492-1750 has some maps and a lot that I was not taught of course. I got all three of them for the maps.
It’s an interesting aspect of human history that the Vikings settled colonists in Vinland in North America around AD 1000. Norse rune carvings dating to about AD 1200 are found as far inland as Minnesota. Phoenician coins have been found along the Newfoundland coast indicating the locations of seasonal fishing villages. The Phoenicians two thousand five hundred years ago fished the Grand Banks. Minoans had copper mining colonies in Michigan four thousand years ago. There have been a lot of slaves held by a lot of people from one region who were colonists in other regions.
"For thousands of years, the people who became the European aristocrats have hated freedom. They have hated decency because they are indecent. They have hated peace because they are war profiteers. War has been nearly continuous amongst the various cliques and interest groups amongst the Europeans since Anno Domini 1337."
I have long held that the pyramids of human hierarchies are inverted, that those now considered on 'the top' are actually at the bottom, that the decent and good ordinary folk are truly the top of the hierarchy. The ordinary person has no driving need to rule over others, or to employ violence against his fellow man, or some need to pervert or degrade or destroy. Those at the 'top' of the hierarchy demonstrate these terrible propensities in spades. Why then do we consider murderous kings or 'aristocrats' or religious leaders as 'above' us? We are not laying all the hurt, we ordinary people are not taking control of all the resources, regular folks don't write rules that cripple anyone's chances of generating wealth in business. It is the elites of human societies who regularly demonstrate the worst of human behavior, not the ordinary folk.
The Epochs of American History a set of 3 volumes exposes the "Plantations" and the companies, and of course their "Charters"-Constitutions....The first one The Colonies 1492-1750 has some maps and a lot that I was not taught of course. I got all three of them for the maps.
It’s an interesting aspect of human history that the Vikings settled colonists in Vinland in North America around AD 1000. Norse rune carvings dating to about AD 1200 are found as far inland as Minnesota. Phoenician coins have been found along the Newfoundland coast indicating the locations of seasonal fishing villages. The Phoenicians two thousand five hundred years ago fished the Grand Banks. Minoans had copper mining colonies in Michigan four thousand years ago. There have been a lot of slaves held by a lot of people from one region who were colonists in other regions.