The Pleasures of Civil War
“Nineveh , O Nineveh!”
“Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.[1]
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.[1]
Synopsis:
Civil wars leave the best ruins for
melancholic introspection on the follies of Mankind .
Discussion :
0.General :
Collapse of civilizations usually
involves Civil Wars towards the end .
The monad for humans is male-female
family unit , which ends in divorce 67% of the time .
This is mirrored in the ruins :
About 1/3 is preserved as ruins ,
the rest is annihilated .
The ruins below are a shadow of 1/3
of the civilizations .
The planet is lousy with ruins .
Everywhere you look .
Just scratch the ground .
Everywhere civil wars leading to
ruins .
The pleasure of ruins ,
Contemplating ruins for a social animal like humans puts you
in your place .
A very democratic form of
spectation .
“What , me matter ? “ Alfred
E Neumann .
On that Mad note
Regards
Andre
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1.Great Gla (Greece)
2.Nineveh
3.Babylon
4.Egypt
5. Shaba (Yemen)
6. Rome
7.Angkor Wat
8.Maya ruins
https://www.google.co.za/search?q=images+maya+ruins&hl=en&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=95ZgUdTaN-2w7Abl74DYAw&ved=0CCwQsAQ&biw=1241&bih=5849.
Europe prehistoric
10 .China ruins
11.Somme
12. Steppes
13 Detroit
14 .Africa .
15.Canaveral
16. USSR
17.Divorce court
18. American civil war
The ruins of a society .
19 Incas
20. Polynesia
21. Australia :
The bit Aboriginal Australians
regretted (ie had ruins about ) was ships and boats .
Typically human for a desert culture
.
Look for the same in the Gobi , Sahara ,
Magadigadi or Doggerland .
22.Amazonia
The riverine cultures seems to have
vanished with hardly a trace . Nobody has really looked .
23.North American Riverine cultures seems to have left more ruins .
Lots of lookers .
24.Ruins of Gaia
As usual , humans have it backwards
. It is Gaia looking at the ruins of humans .
The poor . Hierarchical systems
always have the Poor , by definition .
Fat humans are ruins of people .
Just look at them .
You can see old-style ruins of people
below .
There are now more malnourished
humans in developed societies than in developing societies .
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