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"Whatever happens, we have gotThe Maxim Gun, and they have not." ^1Europe got to where it is because it unleashed unimaginable horror onto the rest of the world.
Europe’s wealth and power had nothing to do with the Renaissance, a scientific revolution, or an Enlightenment. Nor with any French or American Revolutions. Those things came afterwards.
This miserable excuse for a continent ^2 fought itself for a thousand years, and when it found out how to export that terror, it wreaked devastation on humanity. Such devastation that even the planet is dying now. It lives with unbounded greed and consumes all for its Way of Life. ^3
What came first was the evolution of the Portuguese ships to the extent that Europeans could now reach farther points of the Earth. A traumatized population, after a millennium of starvation, deprivation and war, decimated by the Plague, prostrate before a sado-masochistic religion, and subject to a system which perfected mass exploitation to sustain perpetual war, were unleashed onto the planet. They took to these ships like Mongols to the horse. There isn’t a people on the planet which haven’t been murdered, plundered, raped, enslaved or starved by this most violent continent.
Rah Sabs
June 2005
^1 The British poet Hilaire Belloc, after the battle of Omdurman.
^2 See Civilization.
^3 For more on this, see koyaanisqatsi.
Europe got to where it is because it unleashed unimaginable horror onto the rest of the world.
Europe’s wealth and power had nothing to do with the Renaissance, a scientific revolution, or an Enlightenment. Nor with any French or American Revolutions. Those things came afterwards.
This miserable excuse for a continent2 fought itself for a thousand years, and when it found out how to export that terror, it wreaked devastation on humanity. Such devastation that even the planet is dying now. It lives with unbounded greed and consumes all for its Way of Life.3
What came first was the evolution of the Portuguese ships to the extent that Europeans could now reach farther points of the Earth. A traumatized population, after a millennium of starvation, deprivation and war, decimated by the Plague, prostrate before a sado-masochistic religion, and subject to a system which perfected mass exploitation to sustain perpetual war, were unleashed onto the planet. They took to these ships like Mongols to the horse. There isn’t a people on the planet which haven’t been murdered, plundered, raped, enslaved or starved by this most violent continent.
Rah Sabs
June 2005
