Back to School...

Once the autumnal equinox arrives, and the days grow both shorter and cooler, everyone is back at school... Millions return complacent to their day care-like “prisons,” under the tutelage of the panderers of blandness and mediocrity that are so characteristic of modern education – especially at the university and “higher” academic levels in the private sector. Impressionable young adults return to the mind-numbing drill that crushes their spirit, blunts their enthusiasm for the world, and kills their imagination. In other words, back to school! 

In times past, this sorry state of affairs didn’t exist. And, the further back in time we go, let’s say the Iron Age or earlier, what we call school, or even education, had a completely different character than it has today. Unlike what our Corporate purveyors of mediocrity tells us, people 4,000 years ago were not as illiterate and uneducated as we are today... They had far more educational opportunities than in our present times of illusory “free choice” and the debt bondage students are subjected to (with the latter, the students’ parents are in hock for the principle and interest also).

Granted, since the golden age of Greece, 9^th to 4^th Century B.C., education, as a whole has been neglected, curtailed, and eventually restricted to a few elites (as it is today). But even the decadence of the Greeks, and later the Romans, was not the standard of earlier times, when writing was in its heyday.

I realize that the common fable runs counter to what I have just exposed. Academicians insist, because they’ve been drumming this nonsense into us for at least two hundred years now, that throughout History no one could read or write (because to them, History, since time immemorial, is one single, unchanging bore). Since every assessment and judgment about the past is based on present prejudices (a priori judgments), the reasoning goes that knowledge, or information, is power. And, because our current leaders are a bunch of sniveling girlie-men, they figure that by keeping the population ignorant and stupid, in other words, by lying to them, they’ll retain all the power (esp. the political power). Can anyone deny that this is so?

There are few things that are further from the truth than this particular lie... that in the past everyone, except for the scribes or the high priests, were illiterate (Kings, on the whole, especially in Europe, have been illiterate until a century or so ago). This seminal lie, whose purpose is to make us modern folk appear somehow “exceptional,” if not exceptionally lucky, is intended to prevent us from having any interest in matters past... and to thus have us both despise and ignore all previous human wisdom. Because any impartial survey of what people in the past actually knew, would dwarf what we know today...

Take whatever art or wisdom you choose, and today we live in the darkest age in all of human history, an age filled with superstition and outright lies passing themselves off as “truths,” an age of pygmies instead of giants. The only thing one can point to as “advanced” in this Dark Age, is the equally dark “technology” that forms the new materialistic religion of today. If that is the only virtue of our times, and of our civilization, that pretty much says it all... since technology is precisely the dehumanizing driver that has turned us into superstitious Neanderthals in the first place.

We Don’t Do That at KAOS

Have we forgotten our prime directive again? Ignorance is our badge of pride, conceit our attitude, and brazen disregard and carelessness our modus operandi. That’s how exceptional we are! Did I neglect to mention laziness, which is the encapsulation of all the preceding traits? Without ignorance manifested as laziness, where would Monsanto (insert your favorite "Criminal Class Conspiracy" here!) be today? Out of whose pockets would the sugar and trans fat industries get the bulk of their revenues?

Thanks to the reversal of values inherent in History (in the passing of Time itself, if not of ongoing Evolution), we have taken on all of the past’s worse tendencies and assumed them as virtues. Especially all of the decadent tendencies apparent since the 15^th Century A.D., since our vaunted Renaissance period. The “glorious” Renaissance was nothing more than the end of something, like the Middle Ages, it was the beginning of the strictly abstract, limited intellectual view of the world we hold today. We can begin to analyze History along evolutionary lines only once we accept that every age has its Leitmotif. What I call “evolutionary streams” or tendencies (something I’ll delve into with more detail in the future). Since the 15^th Century, few people have been lucky enough to see the gods... much less admit to their existence... Doesn’t that seem odd to anyone?

We moderns like to think that all that talk about “the gods,” and all that polytheistic gobbledygook that ancient people went on and on about, was some kind of delusion, or worse, an out and out lie (we assume it was all contrived by the priests to placate the masses, and keep them from rebelling).

It’s typical modern non-thinking and wrongheadedness to assume so, however... Why would the people of the past lie? What was their compulsion? To impress whom exactly? Certainly not God, whom they saw manifested in myriad ways in everything around them – from the stars, to the wind, to the trees and animals, even to the rocks and stones! Lies are a modern confection, just like “high technology.” It should not surprise us then, when the demon or demigod that brought us lies also brought us high technology.

Knowing that every person had a personal and collective relationship with a living god should not only make us jealous, it should make us stop and think for a change. Shouldn’t the fact that you don’t see God anymore give you pause?

Well, Freddie wasn’t so timid, or loathe to speak the truth, when he pronounced a certain deity done for. If God’s not around, he must be either be MIA, or Dead... or both! Given our so-called civilization’s maturity, he was not wrong... If gods breed civilizations, then a dead and decaying one no longer has a caretaker, now does it?

The Literacy Rate Today and Five Thousand Years Ago

Aren’t our modern misconceptions, superstitions, and “damnable lies,” just wonderful? I mean statistics... I always hate to have to resort to lies to prove a point, but with science being as dead as God and all, what’s the alternative? Certainly not the UN and UNESCO... but what else is there?

According to the above authority, the global literacy rate for all people aged 15 and above is 86.3%. The global literacy rate for all males is 90.0% and the rate for all females is 82.7% (funny how the much smarter sex is still behind – so much for feminism, I guess). For the nationalist and racists among us, the statistics are slanted to their way of thinking too... Africa’s literacy rate hovers around 64% and in the “developed nations” have a 99.2% literacy rate. I personally don’t buy this last statistic, but there it is, the only clue as to our vaunted “superiority” as a race and a nation. And finally, according to UNESCO, there are “only” 781 Million people living on our planet who are illiterate – in other words, many times the reputed population of the Late Bronze Age! Go figure!

Was global literacy in the Late Bronze Age actually lower than it is today? I doubt it. If it was, it was probably only slightly “statistically” lower. Writing by that time had been around a while, maybe a few thousand years. And by contrast, writing in the Renaissance period was something new, which explains why in the Europe of that time the literacy rate was close to 10%... it only reached 30% for adult males in the 18^th Century (and they call that “progress”). Did it take more than a few thousand years for people in the past to assimilate a new learning? I doubt it, not if it meant their survival (or their immediate creature comfort).

As a result, it seems to me that people from the Bronze Age already were accustomed to writing, and therefore reading (why else would you have libraries if people didn’t read – and every capital, every temple had them!). And the presumption that there was an active effort to suppress new knowledge is really a throwback to the nightmare of the Roman Church’s early history, their crusade to spread ignorance in all its guises, and foist famine and poverty on the population of Europe, since the Fall of Rome. These were not the prime directives of earlier civilizations... only of our current one.

The argument against reality is always the same: Only an elite, upper crust, had access to writing, and they kept that to themselves in order to keep power to themselves. But this is just us today projecting our own vile tendencies into the past. It’s stupid and shoddy thinking, if I may categorize it more realistically. People in the past didn’t survive for millennia being as stupid and wanton as we are today... especially if you believe the myth that things were “tougher” in the past without a soft sofa and a remote in hand...

The only reasonable, even credible argument against literacy in our distant past is that Natural Selection is a fantasy and Evolution also. Evolution seems to only permit the stupid to survive and flourish (I can buy that! Since all evidence points to this being the case. We, and our modern culture, are living proof that greed and stupidity – they’re actually the same thing! – trumps wisdom and innate intelligence). The question then begs, why is there Wisdom and intelligence to begin with?

That’s fodder for another day... Right now, we want to focus on how this literacy was manifest in a time and place like the end of the Ancient Egyptian civilization.

Writing as the Substitute for Memory

My proposition is that until the Persian conquest (525 B.C.), or let’s be even more controversial, until Alexander the Great conquered the Black Land (332 B.C.) – two dark and nefarious developments in the de-evolution and demise of Ancient Egypt, the literacy rate was 100%. That’s the ostensible rate of literacy possible when a community believes in such Utopian nonsense as collective justice...

But we have to start at the beginning, and ask why? If necessity is the mother of invention, what caused writing to be necessary? My take is that it had to do with something BIG, namely, something that affected every single person in a direct and almost brutal and tragic way. How else could one describe both the loss of the ancient clairvoyance and the loss of the prodigious memory humans had collectively before the Iron Age?

We’re experiencing the end of that cycle – the loss of memory due to distraction – in our present time. Folks, let’s not kid ourselves, the plague-like advent of Alzheimer’s is not a coincidence. Going forward, memory as we know it today, will be a thing of the past – literally!

Yes, it’s hard to believe, especially in this day and age when we can’t remember what we just said, and we have totally forgotten what we had for lunch, that people in the past had an oral tradition. What does this imply? To pass on to your progeny the sacred science you possessed, you had to speak about it (in lieu of having a well-formed written corpus to rely on, as the anthropologist and archaeologists claim did not exist). A gifted, rich memory was therefore essential to pass on wisdom from one generation to the next. The mental capacity that every single individual on this planet inherited the moment they were born. This was knowledge transfer at the macro level, how one generation obtained the bounty of the last. The question is: How rich was this memory in real terms?

My own theory is that it was astronomically long. In other words, it was as long as the stellar cycles themselves (esp. up until the Iron Age when script and counting became more prevalent).

The often quoted and much misunderstood “one day as a thousand years” is a reference to this epoch when we possessed a memory that stretched back far and wide to grasp details of events long past. Three thousand years ago, and earlier, we could remember what had taken place one thousand years before our birth. According to ancient tradition, this was possible due to our blood, our ancestry (this puts “heredity” in a whole new level of importance than the mere passing on of physical traits as our modern science guesses at).

The ancients knew that our very memory was carried in the blood (today, we would say it was a biological imperative). According to the Ancient Egyptians, the blood in our veins held the very memory of our ancestors, back across fourteen generations.

The reason why memory then was fourteen “generations” long (of approx. 200 years or so for each generation, or nearly 1500 years), is due to the effects of the lunar cycle on human biology (actually consciousness, since you can’t have biology without it). The moon completes its phases in 28 days, composed of two periods of 14 days of waxing moon and waning moon. The interweaving of the female and male elements that support sexual reproduction on this planet of ours is guided by each fourteen-day period of waxing and waning moon phases. Just ask any menstruating woman you know!

Since this was so, it’s clear that writing was not needed until such time as human memory, the capacity to recollect past events, the names of the ancestors to be worshiped (and thanked for their wisdom), etc., was being lost. The ancients could remember the position of the stars and planets over unimaginable periods of time – some say across the full Precession of the Equinoxes (or what astronomers call “axial precession” – typical of the mental midgets of today to reduce a practical, descriptive term into a meaningless garble). This “precession” through all the signs of the Zodiac, takes approx. 25,920 years... (we’ll get into this meaty subject soon!).

As time passed and memory began to wane (until a “day was one hundred years”) the clear and present danger of memory loss was real. The ancients knew that in due course their people would also lose this precious memory, and all would be forgotten... What was a mother to do? The solution was to preserve “collective memory” in writing, and thus the written word became the antidote to amnesia on a grand scale...

Back to School in Ancient Egypt

How do I envision what education was like back in the 15^th Century B.C.? Before attempting to describe what that might have looked like, let us keep things in perspective. By the Late Bronze Age, before the “great collapse” historians now recognized occurred in the 13^th to 11^th Century B.C., before the onset of the Iron Age, the Two Lands was already far advanced in a long process of decadence.

By the reign of Thutmose III (Djehutmose or Thutmosis III), approx. 1479-1425 B.C., Ancient Egypt had already surpassed its last golden age (which arguably took place during the Middle Kingdom). Nevertheless, what decadence was to them, would be to us a glorious golden age, which is why Egyptologist ascribe the Ancient Egyptian golden age to someone like Amunhotep III (Amenhotep or Amenophis III) or the much later Rameses II.

Schooling in Ancient Egypt was likely taken as a very serious thing, although I see it as a very natural and organic process. And, I’m sure the Ancient Egyptians were not the only ones following that same process with their own geographical and cultural slant to it... I do have to say, that my prejudice leans toward the Ancient Egyptian’s approach because they seem to me to be the only civilization or culture of the time (despite their decadence) that was the more practical in its approach and efficiency. Think of them as the Germans of the Late Bronze Age, because they had a great deal of respect for universal education and a high regard for practicality, all at the same time! We have organized schools today not thanks to the Greek Mysteries and the “Academia” of Plato or Pythagoras, but thanks to the House of Life (Per Ankh) of the Black People!

So... did little children get carted off to school like they are today? Probably not. Instruction most likely took place at home during the formative years, and when the teaching exceeded the level of parental capabilities, there was the option to “go further” by other means. Schooling did not take place, until later in the child’s life, and specifically for those sons and daughters of the temple or religious caste, in a building or structure for that purpose. Unlike today, there was no formal instruction at all for children under seven or eight years of age. It was after that age that children, both boys and girls, were taught how to read and write. The Per Ankh (House of Life) was indeed a school, but a mystery school within the temple, and therefore for initiates or aspirants to become adepts of the Sacred Mysteries (i.e., Sacred Science or esoteric teachings) and not meant for the hoi polloi.

It’s impossible to say what “universal” instruction consisted of. For the “profession” of scribe we have ample evidence of workbooks, or manuals, that scribes were asked to copy from, but we have no such “evidence” for other fields of endeavor. Imitation was the method used early on in a child’s education, but it’s not inconceivable that by late childhood or early adolescence teachers were required to advance the development of the child. Perhaps Socrates learned the “Socratic method,” from the Ancient Egyptians.

Whatever the case may be, we have to keep in mind that our current intellectual way of thinking, our materialistic approach, was not in vogue then. That’s why I say instruction was more “organic,” because what was taught had to be practical. Therefore, religious training must have been introduced early on in the process, and then the everyday arts necessary for civilized life were added on.

Everything started with the neteru (the gods), and teaching at first, in the early years must have had a tremendous oral component, such as storytelling, singing, music and dancing, all of it related to the Mysteries of the Temple (I can easily imagine Yoga, Meditation, Astrology, Prayer, and other religious practices being introduced early in the child’s life) and the Arts (plastic arts such as sculpture, clay, stone and woodworking, even painting and drawing).

At the same time, mundane activities such as planting, caring for plants and animals, harvesting, food preparation, washing, sowing and mending, and thousands of other practical activities centered around the hearth and home must have made up the “curriculum” (i.e., everything practical, and therefore the antithesis of the totally abstract, useless, and illusory teaching that goes on today from Kindergarten to graduate school). I know this litany will not sit well with all the pseudo-feminists out there, because education in that remote time, for both sexes, must have taken on the form of a compendium of “home economics,” as that term was used half a century ago and earlier in our own recent history. The Ancient Egyptians at the time in question seemed to have already had an apparent “division of labor” between the sexes.

Does all this sound Utopian? Of course it does! Because the Ancient Egyptians lived in the last Utopia (i.e., the “New Atlantis,” or the Eutopia of myth and legend) – a paradise on earth. That’s why today we still dream of these things (our better angels still remember!). We long for these ideals in our own time because we lost them in our plunge into matter and Materialism (the Fall)... Now there’s a thought to keep close to your heart and to consider, again and again (especially when some tin-horned dictator makes promises he or she will never keep).

The Black Land – Part II

If we were to take a general, if cursive, survey of the current literature on the subject of the climate, flora, and fauna of the Black Land (Ancient Egypt), one would have to conclude that time stands still. As far as our scientific thinking goes, there have been no climatic changes of any note over the many millennia of the Black Land’s history. The Orthodoxy claims that Ancient Egypt and modern-day Egypt had approximately the same climate – dry and drier.  

How important is the weather? Ask those who survived the Diluvium... In ancient times, the weather determined how much abundance there would be; how much life. Modern folks believe they can live without the weather (and probably without air or water too, judging by how the waste both precious resources). They think the weather is more of an inconvenience – raining in on their picnic or cancelling the ball game. There’ll be more than one ball game cancelled if we keep this infantile mentality going for much longer...

It’s neither a trivial nor an easy matter to determine what meteorological conditions existed 4,000 or 5,000 years ago, but it’s clear that the popular imagination still clings to the “desert” versions of the Black Land that Hollywood has portrayed since the last century... Popular culture seems to be “stuck” in that same vision of a rainless, desert landscape beyond the immediate shores of the Great River (the Nile). So much easier to unleash the 10 Plagues upon Egypt when they’re already at the borderline of survivability...

There are some scientists, who do make a passing mention that there may have been more rainfall than what is the case in modern times, but that’s as far as it goes. Some mention that the Sahara was a dry savanna or something of that nature. But that’s about the extent of it. Without evidence, one way or the other, who’s to say they’re wrong?

The Western Desert Lives and Breathes in 45 Degrees...

Due west of Swenet, modern day Aswan, there’s what’s called the Western Desert, covering approx. 700,000 km² of wasteland. In remote areas of this forbidding desert, such as Wadi Sura in Gilf Kebir and Nabta Playa, to name only two of the more prominent places, there are ancient petroglyphs as well as other signs of ancient culture to be seen. Paintings of animal herds, giraffes, ostriches, etc. – giving credence to the “savanna” geography and weather we spoke about above. Precipitation in ancient times is now conceded to have been approx. 500 mm per year.

Folks, 500 mm is half a liter, and half a liter of rain a year is not a lot of rain... even if one takes into account that globally averaged annual precipitation is 990 mm (39 in) over the entire surface of the planet during the course of a year. Lots of rain falls over oceans... 500 mm of rain is an average of 1.37 mm of rain per day.

Scientists, being rather dull herd-animals are not willing to stray too far from present conditions. They’ve given the Western Desert of Egypt half a liter of rain a year 12,000 years ago... Today the precipitation of the Libyan/Sahara desert is well neigh 0 mm/day. Can’t say they’re not generous with that half liter, given that it’s nearly half the annual average globally. And, a savanna type of geography can thrive with 1 to 2 mm of rain per day (averaged annually = 365 to 730 mm of rain).

Looking at things more broadly, these gracious scientists look rather chintzy... If there was greater precipitation during the last glaciation period (during the last 100,000 years of the Pleistocene, from approx. 110,000 to 12,000 years ago), then why would not rain continue, as it has in other areas where glaciers retreated? Although scientists admit that around 10,00 B.C. more rain fell, forming a lake in Nubia, for example, they still are not willing to conceive of a subtropical climate as a possibility...  

Rain, of course, is a major part of the story, but not the whole story... While sites in the Western Desert can easily predate 10,000 B.C., there are many more that are more recent. There is probably little doubt that precipitation was far greater before 10,000 B.C. than later, but that’s not to say that weather patterns repeat, and that over the millennia, many periods of abundant rain were possible even in the Sahara. Current theories say that those living in the Western Desert at that time were “pastoralists” – isn’t that a “nice” word? Peaceful pastoralists populated the plateaus... yeah, right!

So, now we know that they were raising sheep and cattle on a large scale (and on 500 mm of rainfall a year!). The key word is “large scale.” What did I tell you? You have a complicated management problem – a complex system you need run properly? Hire a pastoralist!

Agriculture and “pastoralism” are far older than we imagine, and certainly older than currently pegged by “scientists” (in the future they will be known as herd-animals, and isn’t that a nice “pastoral” way to put it?). Hey! Scientists have to be pastoralists – the big bad wolf is watching and when they don’t agree, the poor scientist get gobbled up – ala Little Red Riding Hood!

Speaking of rain... I’m sure no one has taken account of this fact... In ancient times, no self-respecting shaman, or magician, was unable to conjure rain at a moment’s notice... So much for annual precipitation averages!

You Always Take the Weather With You...

I got news for scientists all over this planet – human beings cause the weather. Our mere feelings, thoughts, and will, collectively, create the weather you enjoy (or not). This was how things have always been, only we’ve forgotten about it...

And, it’s not just “global warming” which is caused by humans – there’s a distinction between “deeds” or “activity” on the physical plane, and human beings causing climatic conditions to change through their other six senses. With respect to global warming, it is a simple question of Physics (I know, a subject no longer taught in school or university for a reason!). Our “activity” is the destruction of the material substances of this planet (we’re supposed to change every single molecule of carbon here), and the waste produced thereby.

Today’s herd-animal has no inkling that to every action there’s an equal and opposite reaction... Burning coal, like farting, has a “negative” and opposite reaction (read about these marvels in a Physics book, preferably one written in the 19^th or early, early 20^th Century, and convince yourself by trying it at home!). Btw, thank your tax dollars going to private education for that little bit of wisdom being lost, which explains why we have so many “deniers” around these days... especially in the press and on the tele...

I’d like to shove down the throat of one of these “denier” girlie-men a plateful of jalapeños, followed by another plate of refried beans (yeah, they can have a beer chaser, I’m not a waterboarder!). Then, after a few moments to let things “coalesce,” I’ll demonstrate, with the simple use of a lighter, what “global warming” looks like. When they fart, which they invariably will, the flame spewing out of their assholes usually does the trick. And, they have a hole in their trousers as a souvenir... Something to try on our politicians on national TV, me thinks... that’ll shut up all the hot air coming out of the other end of their asses!

I happen to think that the climatic conditions, as well as the geographical ones, in the Black Land, especially around 4,000 years ago, and before that time, were considerably different than what they are today. As we consider this question further, we have to take into account the fact that what remains behind as “relics” of a civilization for us to find are really only those things that were made when a civilization was “late” in its “life-cycle,” when it was already in decline (usually, a sharp curve downwards). Egyptologists believe that during the period of time when Khufu’s pyramid, the first of the great pyramids to be built (ca. 2580 B.C. to 2560 B.C.; i.e., some 4,596 years ago), was erected, the Black Land was already a vast desert like it is today.

Perhaps, since a civilization in decadence is one that has turned its environment into a desert.

At the juncture of the pyramids of Giza and the desert landscape which surrounds them, two riddles confront us. One is the age of the pyramids themselves, and the other is what geography and climate permitted the building of these monuments.

Before we get into the conundrum of the age of the pyramids, one would have to ask, what climate was conducive to their being built. Naturally, this brings into question many a priori judgments that have long been made about the Ancient Egyptians – the bad guys and anti-Semites of the ancient world par excellence. If one is inclined towards the modern view, then there’s a certain pathos in the evil pharaohs forcing the Jews to build the pyramids under the whip and under the blistering sun. But since no such fairy tale actually took place, the question remains... what climatic conditions would favor the building of the pyramids?

Since I don’t have a political ax to grind, my choice would be to deviate from the “convenient fable,” and the crass misreading of the Bible, and opt for mild, temperate weather, if not wet conditions (since water helps to alleviate not only thirst and replenishes fatigue, but also overcomes friction). And, since the Black People were not “slave drivers” how would it benefit them to kill their own people to build these monuments? (Esp. if one considers that these structures may have been built in thanksgiving for something!).

Naturally, this train of thought – that the Ancient Egyptians were not evil by nature – is anathema to the current crowd of herd-animals who support the historical lies current today, and which, of course, recommend it as the more likely scenario.

Today, the plateau of Giza is approx. 8 km. from the shores of the Great River. If geographic and weather conditions were exactly the same then as they are today, one would have to wonder why one would choose the Giza site to begin with. We know that many of the underlying sandstone was quarried locally, but a great deal of granite and limestone came from Swenet (Aswan) and that’s nearly 700 km. away. But it’s the last 8,000 meters, from the boat to the construction site, that’ll kill you (an analogy can be made with the telephone system in the last century, wherein the wiring of copper from the box to the home was the hardest and most time consuming to install).

Would it not have been better to build the pyramids closer to the Nile? Even if during the Inundation, water covered their base, the pyramids would not have been worst for the wear... The Ancient Egyptians certainly had no prejudice against building monuments within the flood area of the Great River – the great statues of Amunhotep III on the west bank of Waset (Thebes) attest to that. So why so far from the Nile?

In my opinion, it must have been because the Giza plateau must have been the riparian boundary of the Nile, at least during the Season of Inundation, which is when the actual work was done on the project – be it in 2580 B.C., as the orthodox Egyptologists are paid to believe, or much, much earlier, as most intelligent people surmise. Which brings us to how much more water volume must have been flowing through the Nile in order to make its main channel wider than it is today... It either rained a lot more in Equatorial Africa, or it also rained all along the Great River’s long length so that the watershed accumulated far more water than in recent memory (and I mean memory before the building of the Aswan High Dam and the filling of Lake Nasser, which killed the river by ending its perennial flooding).

A wider river channel would also increase fertile land, extending the “green belt” of the Great River into what otherwise is believed to be an arid, inhospitable desert. This green belt most likely consisted of several square kilometers of forested areas (not only shade, but fuel was needed to sharpen chisels, and forge tools). There were many “tree planting” pharaohs, such as Senusret III (Middle Kingdom), that have been mentioned in the record, and it’s likely that a “policy” of reforestation was always in place (as if Black People had to think twice about doing what’s needed!).

We may not be able to imagine a tree lined, forested expanse on both sides of the Nile, but it most certainly was there 5,000 years ago. How did that “green belt” affect the weather? That would certainly be a “human activity” that would have cooled matters on the ground... In any case, there’s a lot more to this subject of changing climate and geography, which we’ll have to take up in the near future, since there’s a lot more here than meets the eyes...

The Timeless and The Ageless – Part 2

We were talking about the ubiquitousness of ‘a priori judgments’ in the study of History and how these become “absolute beliefs,” which serve to obfuscate any real progress in understanding ancient civilizations, especially with respect to the Black Land (i.e., Ancient Egypt), or any other ancient culture or time period. The unfounded belief that what is “true” today, what is good, right, practical and so on, possess an absolute validity everywhere and in every age is the bane of modern Egyptology and Archeology (and every other so-called scientific discipline practiced in our day). A priori judgements, or prejudices, are the basis of our acute narrow-mindedness... 

We believe we live in a “scientific age,” that everything we think, feel, and do is “objective” and “absolute.” We believe we stand at the zenith of an evolutionary process – the best of all possible worlds – the end result of something that went before that is always negative and inferior, meager and weak, if not simple and stupid. We stand above everything, even God, since we live in a godless age, in a world devoid of spirit. Yet the paradox is that despite this belief in “exceptionality,” especially in the West, in the superiority of our “race,” our intellect, of our technology, we are feeble creatures driven only by fear, and this fear has made us the most superstitious people on Earth.

Never in human history have people been so superstitious as they are today, especially in the “advanced” Western cultures. The funny thing is that this superstition is a result of hubris, the rampant arrogance that’s bred by “Exceptionalism” (which is nothing more than egoism, a kind of “materialistic atheism” that places the personal ego, even the State, above everything). The vast majority of modern people have fallen prey to falsehood, and to pseudo-scientific concepts that don’t measure up to half-truths. These false ideas are then projected and “transferred” to the past (the juvenile narrative goes like this: “Since we’re the best, nothing that has come before us can be any good!”).

This kind of non-thinking in our culture is fomented by today’s “elites” (a laughable concept given that these self-appointed elites are in fact barely herd-animals), and propagated by so-called authorities (e.g., academicians, scholars, and scientists), who happen to be among the most superstitious of the herd.

Everything we claim to know about ancient civilizations are based solely on a prior judgments informed by emotional reactions based on personal or cultural prejudices of the most infantile kind (to the extent of being politically and racially motivated). Our ego-centric culture is rife with “absolute conclusions” that are no more than “tantrums,” and these creep into what should be an objective look at our own reflection in the events of the past. But of course, not our reflection as we are today!

As we deny and ignore the past, the past still fascinates us. We intuit that there’s something “lasting” in it, and that there’s something more to it that we can’t get at. We seek our own reflection in the past (i.e., in the events and personalities of History), and because we don’t see it (or don’t see it clearly), we undervalue and dismiss it (or worse, as academics do, fabricate a past that never was).

Maybe we don’t like what we see in that reflection coming at us from the past? Perhaps that is what leads us to fear the light of the past even more, because if there’s anything that the past reflects clearly is our gross inferiority as a culture and a species... Well, that just shows that Darwinism has it ass-backwards.

Damnable Lies, Statistics, and The Life-Expectancy Myth

In Part I, we discussed the confusion that exists when dating mummies to determine age of death, state of health, or any other determinant, such as “cause” of death (morbid curiosity in us always leads us to want to know the latter). We learned that the conclusions reached from the “aging” of mummies by modern standards was particularly flawed, and that the Black People lived to a far riper age than anyone has heretofore imagined. We’ll get back to Ancient Egyptian immortality, and we’ll scrutinize the phenomenon much closer in future blogs.

For our vaunted “elites,” the tools to obscure, confuse, and manipulate opinions and beliefs are readily at hand. They even use one of the greatest gifts of the past – Mathematics – to hoodwink us in the most pathetic way imaginable. We are really to blame for their success, since our own failure to think things through is often responsible for our acceptance of the superstitions we harbor. We prefer to remain asleep... and as a consequence, often the most ridiculous beliefs are accepted as true, with calamitous results.

Now, it’s time to turn the light of day onto other, subtler, yet more effective means to perpetuate the fable that the Black People barely reached, what today is the age of reproduction (approx. 30 years of age). In Europe, a woman has her first child at the age of 29... imagine what that would mean if we were in the past! Yep, we’d have no future... 

Even in academic and scientific circles, the failure to think, and then ask questions before formulating theories and beginning investigations is almost tragic. There are literally thousands of examples of this in our time, but since my interest is to focus on Ancient Egypt, the Black Land, we’ll cut to the chase.

The common belief that ancient people died in their late 20s to early 30s is widespread, and typical of our modern, superstitious way of approaching the ancient past. Any dimwit who has any connection with reality can easily see that the concept that entire populations expired at this early age (before maturation), is not based on anything real, or on anything that exists in Nature – so much for the “scientific method,” which is as dead as God is!

Needless to say our regard for Nature is so abysmally low that the planet upon which we live never even registers as anything real. In our modern, abstract perception, Nature (like the concept of God before it) is a non-thing, a non-existent, non-entity – if it were to exist, it is there to serve the parasites, as if it were the private and exclusive property of a few “elites” of the Corporate State and nothing else. They can burn the forests, kill all living things in air, water, and earth, they can turn the rivers and seas of the planet into dead zones, and melt away the polar icecaps with impunity (and all that for a few lousy bucks!).

The prevailing dictum is: facts be damned, and Nature with it. Nature and facts are always in the way! This “scorched earth” approach to Nature is transferred also backwards into the past and applied across the board without distinction to time or place. Since we, as modern, “enlightened” individuals do little else than destroy the environment that sustains us for a few plastic trinkets, the ancients must have done the same (sans the plastic, of course, which is what makes them inferior right off the bat).

The depth of our decadence is such that we are driven solely by stupid notions that have nothing to do with reason, knowledge, or even actual facts. Limits to knowledge? They’re self-imposed – we can hardly get out of a paper bag! Filled with our preconceived opinions and prejudices, we flounder and then drown in an ocean of falsehood and superstition, never quite knowing which way is up or down.

Modern science is not only oblivious to what is obvious, it demonstrates a lack of understanding of biological and evolutionary processes that have already been well-established less than a century ago! It’d be great to blame this ignorance on some kind of virulent “amnesia” that has overtaken the population of the planet, since even the materialistic laws that our science has garnered to increase our knowledge are ignored outright, or jettisoned altogether for political expediency. Consider how many deniers there are today in the scientific community of the wholesale destruction of our living environment (not to mention global warming).

The Best Science Money Can Buy...

How can we be the “best” human evolution has to offer when we’re so awfully bad at everything? Yet these beliefs persist... The belief that we’re “better off” than our ancestors relies solely on one Lie (ahem! Statistic). It relies on what is commonly known as the “average life expectancy.” To the “average person on the street,” this is the sole superstition that makes people feel good about themselves despite the facts and the course of events. (“I may not make it to 45, but those terrible, slave-owning Egyptians got theirs at 30!”)

Today, worldwide, for women, the life-expectancy is 73 years (for men it’s 68). In advanced countries like Japan, life-expectancy for women is nearly 87 years. In an enclave – a “gated community” for the rich and famous in France – it’s almost 90. The fact that the highest life-expectancy in the world is in a principality like Monaco (it’s not even a real country), tells us volumes about ourselves, doesn’t it? 

But back to the real world (i.e., the place where we live, but not where our elites live!). The bad news for women is that the five-year gap is closing on them, rather sharply... Gee, I don’t know, maybe it means it’s time to stop aping stupid men’s behavior?

Typically, this statistic is the preferred propaganda tool of the failed state/government that has just made yet another deep budgetary cut into health services to their population. Through the statistics of life-expectancy they hoodwink their unsuspecting citizen-slaves into believing that their “standard of living” is better than anyone else’s (this goes by countries, by regions, even by centuries). But when one comes to understand that the world’s highest life-expectancy today – only possible in a fairyland like Monaco – barely reaches Ancient Egypt’s life-expectancy in the 15^th Century B.C., then we come to realize how far behind the eight-ball we really are!

The penchant for using “average life expectancy” in a historical context, which technically is “life expectancy at birth,” is even more distorting than it is when it’s used by failed governments for its propaganda value. What “life expectancy at birth” means is the average number of years that a newborn baby can expect to live in a given society at a given time.

This “given time,” however, has a very narrow window, something short of 150 years, and even in Europe, reliable records of births and deaths were not kept even within that time period. That’s about as much mileage as you’re going to get out of “life expectancy at birth” statistic for historical periods beyond the last century or two...

Too bad... because the superstition is that this is valid, an “absolute” measure, for 10,000 B.C. as well. This is how “specialization” in the sciences blankets falsehoods over vast swaths of time and place, without regard for either... Reality falls beyond the limits of most specialization today. But we don’t need to go that far back in order to understand why this is being done. The effect of the lie is more immediate and concerns us today – not our ancestors or actual historical events they lived through (there’s very little harm our lies can do them now!).

All the fables of “history” are concocted for our benefit – those living in the present. Why? So that we don’t awaken and see what’s coming... That’s the primary reason. The other important reason is that this is one of the cornerstones of the authorities’ TINA argument (“There Is No Alternative” to the present regime). Other reasons exist, naturally, such as that our elites themselves share our ignorance and superstitions, also that they are just as lazy as we are, and they’re not going to give up a single unearned privilege they enjoy.

Miracles Are In Short Supply

Keeping in mind that we’re barely approaching what was the standard life-expectancy 3,000 years ago... What accounts for our “rise” in life-expectancy since the last century or two?

Many factors are involved, of course, but if you were to ask an “authority” about it, they would soon point to our vaunted antibiotic drugs and vaccines (the “miracles” of technological medicine). These they will quickly claim have extended our life-expectancy immeasurably, at least, since the ravages of the Industrial Revolution made 30 year-old men the most senior of citizens.

But it’s easy to see how specious this argument really is. Granted, the last generation of the 19^th and early 20^th Centuries were the great beneficiaries of the miracles of modern science, since their most common diseases no longer killed them before they reached puberty (actually, public health and hygiene had more to do with it than miracle drugs). Over time, during the tumultuous middle of the 20^th Century, meager improvements in the squalor of urban life did improve and extend the life of those in Europe whose ancestors previously died at 30 from working 18 hour days, seven days a week, in sweatshops and factories (just like 8-year old Indonesian and Pakistani girls and boys do today, to name only two of dozens of countries where slavery is thriving nowadays).

My grandparents, even my parents, benefited from the application of hygiene to everyday life. But these privileges, the basic necessities, were only extended down the ladder of society after revolutions and wars (one of which, WW II, destroyed 85% of the world’s economy). But from here on in, “miracle drugs” and vaccines will only have a small kicker in this generation, and will, naturally, like all “miracles,” fade away. Paradoxically, going forward, these “miracles” will kill off the next generation, and also those that are growing up as children now...

Therefore, the next two generations – those exposed to vaccines and antibiotics from birth – will not reach the heights of longevity enjoyed today. Vaccines and antibiotics are the “dirty laundry” of purveyors of medical/technological “miracles” vis-à-vis life-expectancy and quality of life.... (Actually, if you think about it, there’s no paradox involved at all. The sucker’s paradox is created through the lie, and its implied benefits, which never existed to begin with).

The “glorious miracle” of short-term returns (the Holy Grail of the financial sector) has seeped into our belief system at every level of our society today, especially in the sciences. And, as viruses and bacteria become more virulent and resistant to antibiotics, while at the same time this generation’s immune system is further compromised by the irresponsible use of vaccines and the general degradation of the living environment, the prospects are not good that we’ll ever match Ancient Egypt’s life-expectancy going forward (or even backwards).

Our superstitions concerning the “gods” of medicine and technology have led us directly into the eye of yet another “perfect storm,” making our children, and grandchildren, and any future generations that succumb to the superstition, expressly vulnerable to common diseases. Naturally, because their handlers have told them so, the superstitious believe that these diseases have “disappeared.” Well, what can I say? Isn’t wishful thinking the most common pattern of thought exercised by a superstitious mind? If not delusion and wishful thinking, what else can protect you from the wrath of the gods?

Add to this “perfect storm” the fact that most people living today – so separated from the Nature they abhor – live with a compromised immune system, one doesn’t have to have an oracle to see the result. Children born today have inherited this deficiency and are especially vulnerable to this compendium of circumstances. The “old” common diseases, like tuberculosis, polio, cholera, measles, etc., haven’t and won’t disappear. The root or cause of disease is not “biological” to begin with... but opportunity is always on the side of some virus or bacteria, especially if you zip out of your protective bubble, or are forced out of it due to economic circumstances... Welcome to the new normal...

The failure of our immune system to deal with the real – with Nature itself – is particularly problematic. Weak immunity means that we now have a substantial number of modern humans who can no longer metabolize gluten. In other words, humans can no longer digest wheat – the seminal grain of Agriculture and which was the major factor in creating Civilization in the first place. Something to ponder... But who’s awake out there??

Superstitions will never protect us... We live in a time when life’s not just cheap, but exceedingly short, and where deadly violence abounds not just in far-flung wars and in the streets of our towns, but in the very products we consume. Are we really that superior to those who lived even a thousand years ago? Believing it so might just be the placebo we need... Yet this age dreams of extending life to the great lengths of the Ancient Egyptians... one-hundred and twenty, one-hundred and forty years... Seems like a vain dream...

The Infant Mortality Myth

As useless as all of these “average life-expectancy” numbers are to determine the health of a population and the longevity of adults in our day, they are even more so when used to frame our past. Nonetheless, the “authorities” insist on selling us the same statistics over and over again (it’s part of the Goebbels Principle they adhere to about the “bigger the lie...”). The “myth” consists in making us believe that infant mortality is a “natural” occurrence, especially endemic in backward cultures and peoples (and they never tire to give us the examples of Africa and the Indian subcontinent today). Therefore, the convoluted logic (more like illogic) assumes that infant mortality was more prevalent in the past.

What they fail to realize, or prefer to ignore, is that high infant mortality is a modern phenomenon – an artificial event and not one “caused” by Nature. The death of infants was rare in ancient times, and this tragedy was not as rampant even in the Middle Ages as has been popularized. We modern herd-animals are not good at dealing with tragedy. Since we deny it, it’s difficult to face it. Especially today, when we have only pity to spare those less advantaged than we (the rest of us couldn’t give a flying banana about children starving!).

This tragedy of infant deaths is relatively new in human history – probably not before the high Middle Ages and the Renaissance (i.e., with the “Black Death,” in the high Middle Ages, 1346-1353) – when cities in Europe began to grow and bad hygiene was the result. Naturally, the Black Death resulted in a “collapse” of Western Civilization that is not even considered by historians... children ended up bearing the brunt of this disintegration (just as children bear the largest number of deaths today). We can’t handle tragedy of any kind – not even the Greek kind!

High infant mortality rates (IMR); i.e., over 30% to 50%, are the direct result of the rapid period of industrialization which took place commencing in the mid-18^th Century and the consequent breakup of civil society (i.e., the disappearance of the agricultural way of life). Of course, we only have data (statistics) for the period after the inception of the Industrial Revolution... but we know that this “revolution” caused great harm to the health and standard of living of populations in the U.K., Europe, and eventually the United States.

Knowing that Ancient Egypt was an agrarian civilization, they keep telling us the infant mortality rate was at least 30%, when no agricultural society could possibly survive such a high death rate. They have no evidence for this extreme IMR, nevertheless, this is the foundational myth, the a priori judgment that informs the “experts” studying History, and especially ancient history. This is their point of departure... From there they sail off into abstractions and preconceived ideas, and ever deeper into murkier waters, and then when they approach the shoals it’s no surprise that the siren song of “funding” leads them to run aground against the sandbanks.

It’s not simply that the statistic of life-expectancy is completely disconnected with reality in today’s world, it’s doubly wrongheaded when it’s applied to anything older than a century or so. But “experts,” “authorities,” “academicians,” etc. are not interested in bringing light into our past – it scares the bejesus out of them! They’re only interest is maintaining their tenure, and their jobs (I don’t blame them!), therefore they’re more than happy to regurgitate the dogma (and sing along like choir boys at mass).

Well, call me a curious fool... I’d like to know: What biological organism fails to reproduce at a 30% rate? Zoo Pandas? Maybe that’s why these poor creatures will be extinct next week?

Seriously folks, where in Nature can a species survive with a less than 70% batting average? Biologists are, naturally, the experts who least understand biological processes, nevertheless, even they’ll have a hard time pointing to anything living that has such an abysmally bad rate of reproduction. Yet, the Ancient Egyptians – the most successful Civilization ever – was such an anomaly!

Where Extinction Begins...

No one informed the “experts” that extinction begins at the point where reproduction is less than 100%. Since ignorance and confusion is what reigns in academic circles today (this must be the result of the obfuscation that’s intended, coupled with low educational standards), it’s futile to talk about “objective facts,” “laws of physics,” or anything that departs from the text of the fairy tale. To discuss anything related to what is real or provable leads nowhere because dogma is a set of mummified beliefs. Confusion and disinformation can’t be rebutted – that’s another huge advantage it has.

It’s easy to see, when one takes but a brief second to think, that all of these “infant mortality rate” nonsense is another symptom of bad science. Bad science is the only science we have today!

A civilization that lasted, at least 15,000 years (the age of the oldest art found), with an infant mortality rate of 30% or more is just stupid and lazy thinking... what our “elite academicians” excel at! They’ll even go on to add that when things got started, back before the “Naqada” civilizations, the mortality rate must have been 60% or more. In other words, Egyptian Civilization was at the border of the abyss of extinction for its entire existence (which spans far more than a mere 15,000 years!).

Therefore, we must conclude that if the greatest, most successful civilization of all time was such a pathetic disaster, we today, with our dysfunctional states and social disorder, must be gods in comparison! Only decadent, non-thinking herd-animals can spew out such pap. We are meant to believe that everyone else living in the Bronze Age — outside of the Black People – must also have been at the border of the abyss of extinction as well.

How easily superstitious notions and beliefs get us into trouble when we try to describe the real world through them... Only a dead culture, a mummified civilization, can come up with such stillborn “concepts” as these. Is it because we know, at least subconsciously, that we’re the ones at the border of the abyss? Probably...

Civilizations Commit Suicide...

The famous British historian, Arnold J. Toynbee was the first to point out that “Civilizations die by suicide, and not by murder.” An astute observation given that our civilization committed suicide during the Industrial Revolution and its aftermath, by submitting its population to 50% infant mortality rates for extended periods of time (nearly two hundred years’ worth of it!). Violence of a nature and intensity unheard of in human history... Now we visit this violence on what’s euphemistically called the “Third World.”  

What “civilization” survives even a 30% infant mortality rate? None do really – and our has-been civilization is proof of that! The great masses of Europe and America survived the Industrial Revolution (approx. 1750-1850), with sustained 50% infant mortality rates, and then struggled through the vicious industrialization that ensued into the first third of the 20^th Century and beyond (when the actual IMR was over 167 deaths per 1,000 live births – put that in your pipe and smoke it!), before things improved, albeit marginally. Naturally, this economic violence, followed by civil and world wars, revolutions, and famines, destroyed our civilization. The entire 20^th Century was a “mass suicide” event, and it’s still going on full-blast into the 21^st. 

These events of the 20^th Century have just occurred, within the lifespan of many people living today, and yet no one seems to have noticed them. No one has the slightest inkling that they live inside a rotting corpse, and what they see as bleached bones once was a great civilization with roots reaching back to the Classic Age of the Greeks! So it goes...

Of course, peoples and cultures outside our own have been subjugated and forced into extinction with 50% or higher infant mortality rates during that same period. Africans have survived 500 years of such treatment, which explains why they have lost their great civilizations. But they’re not the only ones... the list is too long to include here, since it would include every peoples and civilization that existed since the Flood...

The human, cultural, and economic toll of the centuries since the Industrial Revolution – the predecessor to our current decadent society – can never be calculated with any exactitude. Nevertheless, there it is... And, isn’t this fact the one historians want to hide most? They certainly don’t advertise the fact that 50% infant mortality rates was what the Industrial Revolution wrought in the U.K., the U.S., and in their slave colonies. I wonder why?

According to our “experts,” Kemet, the Black Land, survived through more than 15,000 years with half its people dying before they came of age (unable to reproduce or sustain the following generation), and yet, with their civilization intact. At that rate, it’s hard to conceive how the Black People ever managed to put one stone block on top of another with such a shortage of human beings at their disposal – no wonder they needed armies of slaves! But then again, how did they procure these armies of slaves through conquest when they were so few and constantly at the edge of biological and civilizational collapse?

The “experts” always want it BOTH ways – wrong and wronger! Yet, we’re told these two incompatible, mutually exclusive statements in one breath, and we are to believe them, since they are the anointed ones. And, as superstitious herd-animals, we accept it as such, as if it were the gospel truth...

Clearly, the Black People must have been far superior as gene bearers and as civilization keepers than we are! Yet somehow, I don’t think this is what they meant to prove with their silly statistics and their childish prejudices...

That’s quality control for you... Only a civilization bent on self-extermination – on convincing itself it’s not on the verge of extinction – can possibly come up with such rubbish. Yet, university textbooks are filled with this kind of patent drivel (which is then echoed by professors in classrooms around the world!). With these kinds of ludicrous concepts and baseless prejudices they pull the wool over our eyes (and the “academicians” that parrot this tripe, without having given it a single thought, are themselves convinced of the lie as well).

It’s A Jungle Out There Myth...

The mercilessly absurd “logic” the academicians use to ram the life-expectancy and infant death rate down our throats, really tickles my funny bone. They’re so eager to prove this nonsense that they always get their nipples caught in the wringer while trying. The myth goes something like this: The Black People (all people from early antiquity are included in the same pot), never survived their first year, much less puberty (approx. 14 years of age) due to the extreme risk of infectious diseases, injuries, and accidents.

Take careful note of these “three killers” of ancient humans they harp on... Of course, none of the above affect us mighty gods of modernity! You see, these skirt-wearing savages were weak and stupid and they didn’t have Big Pharma protecting them from the big bad wolf, or even the mean crocodile...

Whenever I get a chance to catch my breath after splitting my gut laughing, I then have to “translate” things back into some kind of reality, because the specialists are always up on Cloud 9 in their thoughtless abstractions. What the experts mean is that ancient people were dumb, careless, and accident prone. In other words, more or less like us – and we’re like a 3-year-old with a cranked-up chainsaw ready to mow the lawn.

The “infectious diseases” presumably came from drinking bad water, or eating their own excrements (this is the 3-year-old as a primitive savage theory). Bad water from the Nile, I would have to guess, although they had running water and interior plumbing (which the majority of people in our time lack!). This they gather because if a tourist were to drink water from the Nile today, he or she would get instant dysentery (and worse!).

But what makes Nile water bad for us today, didn’t kill those who drank the totally different water that ran through there 15,000 or even 3,000 years ago (pure water to them!). These experts always fail to take the real world or any facts into account. They also fail to tell you that people back then had something we moderns lack – a working immune system!

To our modern academicians Ancient Egypt is a kind of modern Chad, or worse... a Sudan... or some other war-torn area of the Imperium, where total Chaos has been let loose on the poor and unsuspecting. It’s a carryover from the condescending attitude of the Victorian Age, when approaching the “dark savages” of the Empire. Talk about superstitious! Well, to some extent they’re right, as far as the present is concerned, Egypt is still a vassal state of the Empire...

The Three Stooges In Loincloths (What a Sight!)

The “risk of injury” is the funniest of the lame excuses they come up with. The Black People were an awkward, ungainly bunch from what their statistics tell us – mortality rates in the thousands from their clumsiness and ineptitude. They got up in the morning, and unable to cope with their combined maladroitness and the countless health hazards inherent in their surroundings, they up and died like flies!

Presumably, every city of the ancients was an accident waiting to happen. In other words, just like every modern city of today! I can see the hapless Egyptians dropping chisels on their coworker’s heads, falling through trap doors into secret chambers and breaking both legs, falling off of pyramids and the like. As if the Ancient Egyptians were a bunch of clumsy knuckleheads – a civilization composed exclusively of Curlys, Larrys, and Moes.

The “accidents” are even more laughable as a risk of death for people of ancient times. What killed them? Being taxed and then neglected by their government? Falling airplanes, crashing cars, terrorist bombs going off?

Imagine the multitude of perils of living in Ancient Egypt, where the fastest moving object was slower than the walking pace of an adult, or the lazy current of the Nile. This is a place where there were no camels or horses (horses before camels, and horses came with chariots at the end of the Bronze Age). People even failed to drown! That’s why they carried their “sa,” their reed bedding rolls, around their necks as a floatation device whenever they sailed on the Great River.

But of course, an expert wouldn’t know that... that’s part of real life and experts only deal in abstractions, in little numbers in tidy rows and columns... as if dead data will ever reveal anything connected with life or reality.

Hey, the Ancient Egyptians didn’t have terrorists blowing things up, but there was an even worse danger... Cobras bit the unsuspecting, crocodiles devoured the unwary, hippos trampled the reckless!

It’s only natural for modern folks who are afraid to walk the streets in broad daylight, where breathing the air and drinking the water are deadly gambles, to “transfer” such fears to the past and to Ancient Egypt. Insurance companies thrive fomenting such fears. Living in an age where social and economic chaos, nervous disorders, and the electronic distractions of modern life will drive you nuts, it’s easy to see why one has to believe that those wretched people of ancient times had it much worse.

These fears we transpose onto the past are even more ridiculous as a “risk of death” than the falling meteor theory. Again, this presupposes that the Black People were something akin to American or British tourists in their own land; i.e., people ignorant of how “things work” and acting out in conspicuously stupid fashion. But I wouldn’t make that assumption. I don’t think the Black People went out in the midday sun either...

How risky was it? What were the odds do you imagine, back 3,000 years ago, of being “caught unawares” by a crocodile – something bigger than a 1962 Cadillac? How about being bitten by a cobra? Did anyone take out crocodile or cobra “insurance” perhaps? Of course, all the Black People had it, since they worshipped both cobras and crocodiles (cheaper than insurance premiums and it actually pays off). As if the Black People sleepwalked through the living environment like we do today... oblivious to delight or peril.

Even Egyptologists, who should know better, foster these fables of cobras killing thousands of children and crocodiles gobbling them up like sushi. Crocodiles weren’t a danger to navigation on the Great River, they were inside the very temples! And no one got eaten because of it (well not until Greek and Roman tourists showed up! Gotta love those tourists!).

These are the kinds of silly tropes Victorians came up with when they first visited the “untamed” Nile, as guess what? Why tourists, of course! For them it was “Tarzan” all over again. We should have gotten past that infantile stage by now... or so one would think.

The Hungry Games...

Finally, we arrive at the most entrenched of all the fairy tales about Ancient Egypt, and the past in general. The experts and specialists love this story above all the rest because it’s their “ace in the hole,” and they believe it bears no contradiction, much less argument. Why? Because it can be summed up in a single word – “malnutrition.”

Who can doubt it? Doesn’t malnutrition kill tens of millions a year today? We have rampant malnutrition in London and New York, therefore, the Ancient Egyptians must have been dying of starvation in troves too! We have so many people starving now – according to the UN there are 7,665,000 dying of starvation every year. This is a low-ball figure, another statistic. The majority are children under three. This ties in nicely with this myth about infant mortality, since it’s really poverty and artificial scarcity which kills infants and children (and, there’s nothing “natural” about poverty or Corporate-imposed scarcity).

Today’s experts, and many lay people too, simply can’t conceive that the Black People didn’t starve. Why? It’s what comes with Racism and the dogmatic belief that we are somehow superior to all peoples at all times (just as white people are “obviously” superior to all other “colors” out there!). Don’t we have a superior economic system? Don’t we have superior technology? Conspicuous consumption? More guns, more money, more lawyers? We’re the greatest! Aren’t we just peachy-keen?

It’s the same dimwitted narrative... Racism stops people form even imagining that ancient people knew how to manage large systems far better than we do today. Isn’t it obvious that they were far better managers than we are? Try building a pyramid someday... I’d like to see how far that would go today! The a priori judgments also stops them from even considering that these civilizations were more wisely arranged, and that they were, on the whole, far more noble, just, and egalitarian than we are. God forbid! That could never be!

Malnutrition... Pause and think about it for a second, even two... A completely artificial event, since there’s nothing in Nature which prevents people from producing food and eating well. Don’t think about it for more than three seconds, however, because if you do, the conclusion is obvious – the only thing that keeps people in starvation on this planet is a well-armed and politically empowered criminal class...

We perpetrate a mass killing bigger than the Holocaust every year! It took the entire Nazi regime, plus the length and breadth of World War II, to perpetrate the Holocaust, and yet, they came up short to what we accomplish by nearly two million deaths, each and every year! And this is ongoing, every single year in ever growing numbers – more than at any time in the whole of human history.

We’re “Superior” Alright – Superior Killers!

Well, it just doesn’t look good on the C.V. to admit to the facts, to such glaring failings... To admit to the obvious would lower our “standing” as a so-called civilization (not to mention as an economic system) to that of a pure state of savagery – something completely outside of Nature – even beneath those heathen Egyptians!

Why are so few famines recorded in ancient times? Because they mostly failed to occur. When they did it was with such rarity that they were considered “chaos,” and when they did occur, they tended to be “civilization-ending” events. No, people in ancient times didn’t starve – starvation is a modern economic tool, a form of warfare... Now, we’ve added financial debt (i.e., bad bank loans) to the arsenal too!

By simply exercising our gray cells, we’ve been able to eliminated all the made-up “risks” that increase child mortality rates and average life expectancy, even in the present. Now, we can see that these statistics are nothing more than a kind of “feel good” propaganda (well, what propaganda isn’t self-aggrandizing?).

The major determinant of life expectancy at birth is the child mortality rate, the higher that rate is, the lower the life expectancy (it’s all averages you know!). As a result, by giving the Ancient Egyptians our numbers during our industrialized age, we give them an extremely low life-expectancy.

Again, it’s worth pointing out that this is the typical comparison between apples and oranges so prevalent in academic and scientific circles. What historians, experts, and statisticians are comparing is not the death rates of ancient times – something they can’t know and have absolutely no evidence for – but the child mortality rate of the Industrial Revolution, which were high to an extreme. And, it’s this cherry-picking of irrelevant data that skews the life expectancy numbers dramatically downward for ancient times. They have no moral qualms about it either, since the racial and cultural prejudice is always there – it had to be worse than the worst of what we do!

Even in the miniscule event that there is no malice aforethought, the prejudice drives the conclusion. I don’t want to go into the ugly political reasons why this is the case, since then I’d have to run to the bathroom and wash my hands... But kids, it’s the old TINA argument. The “no-alternative” narrative comes dovetailing out of this kind of propaganda. Basically, the sad tale our sorry elites peddled goes like this: “Throughout History, since the most ancient times, people lived in the most abject poverty, they were slaves and they starved in droves, so get used to it, because we plan to keep this shit up for a while.”

Unfortunately for that narrative, the Black People didn’t have the infant mortality rate of the Industrial Revolution, because they weren’t a subservient, colonized people of modern times. Because when people aren’t under the boot of the predators cum parasites, women are free to choose when they give birth, and then they do so at a more leisurely rate.

Modern slave colonies have high birth and death rates because babies don’t survive their first few months of life. But in the Two Lands the infancy mortality rate was far lower than the current infant mortality rate in the U.S. (now over 6.1 deaths per 1,000 live births – 28^th or 29^th among “advanced” countries), and was probably lower than in Europe ten years ago. Infant mortality rates are now creeping back up, in large part due to the worldwide artificial crisis created by the larger, global finance-based economies – something that didn’t exist 50 years ago, much less in ancient times.

The Mantra – Past is bad; Present is good – is what lulls us into believing that we should be happy for what we haven’t got because it was worse before... After sufficient repetition it has been crystalized and fixed as dogma. Nothing changes, they keep telling us, just go back to sleep, you’ll get used to it... or you’ll die; either way, it works out for them!