Saturday, April 06, 2013

The Pleasures of Civil War


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.
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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
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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