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Originally Posted by Jeb Stuart Thurmond
Machete Pacifist
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Joined up thinking is not a strong suit among Leftist revolutionaries, many of whom have never even visited the places they think need liberation. Liberia would be a good example of that. They swallow theories wholesale with utter absence of cross-referencing if indeed they even know what cross-referencing of ideas means.
- IDEA ONE
- Machine age weapons are necessary for war
- IDEA TWO
- White people evolved from Africans
The history of machines could perhaps go back to Græco-Roman times but classical era warfare did not involve jet aircraft, nuclear submarines or cruise missiles. Nevertheless machines did exist but quite honestly do machete pacifists complain about the Emperor Honorius selling ballistæ to Greater Zimbabwe?
No. There were some buildings, mud huts and later a granite citadel but conflict resolution was mainly through fire as evidenced by incinerated ruins. There is no evidence of imported artillery.
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Originally Posted by Nayan Chanda (cited by Yale University)
Sweden’s well-known author Lasse Berg often begins his book talk with an attention-getter: “I am glad to see so many Africans in the room”. it invariably makes his (largely blond and Nordic) audience turn around to see where all the Africans are. Of course, Berg means everyone present. The author of Dawn over Kalahari: How Man Became Man proceeds to tell the story of how all humanity emerged out of the so-called dark continent and populated the earth.
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So there we have two very different ideas. The export of machine-age weapons to the third world creates warlords where, presumably, there would otherwise be peace and tranquility and simultaneously the idea that we're all evolved from the same
mtDNA and
X or
Y chromosomes on the African continent so we're all the same and no-one's importing or exporting technology at all because we're all the same humans. Never mind that we were burning one another out well before the catapult was invented. It's called having your cake and eating it. Machete Pacifist would be an analogous term. But that requires joined-up-thinking forever denied to those who never read The Bible.