I definitely don't buy the "noble savage" myth. They were humans, capable of
as much evil and environmental destruction as their European (Asian, African)
cousins.
I still would love to have seen the cities, villages, irrigation projects,
pyramids, and mound building that obviously was going on in pre-Columbian
America.
On Wednesday, February 17, 2021, 11:17:47 PM CST, Edward Retta
<eretta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dean, that "height" of Indian civilization in those years included massive
scale human sacrifice in Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital. Some estimates as
high as 80,000 per year. Beating human hearts were extracted from conquered
tribes' members. I have seen the sacrificial stones with my own eyes. So did
our buds Jeff Davis and Dwight Henneberger on our first tour of Mexico City in
2019.
Sure the Aztecs were great engineers and architects, but also the Nazis of the
Americas in 1490s.
Edward Retta
On Feb 17, 2021 21:40, Dean B <canyonag77@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I never had much opinion on "Hamiliton" one way or another, but the concept of
intentionally putting minorities into historical roles that weren't minority,
just seemed like they were trying too hard to be "woke". And I'd forgotten
that nonsense of the cast of high school dropouts, lecture the VPOTUS from the
stage. Shut up and sing, no one bought a ticket to hear your mindless ranting.
If we're on the subject of our misspent youth in front of the TV, my vote is
for "12 O'clock High", where they ran the same WWII gun camera film of the same
planes being shot down every week. Then the later, silly ones, like "McHale's
Navy", and "Hogan's Heroes", the latter where the Germans were all played by
Jews (intentionally).
I'll echo the call to read "1491", I found it fascinating. If God allows you
to watch his old home movies when you pass, I want to see what this country
looked like before the first humans showed up, and what it looked like in 1491
at the height of Indian civilization.
And "Empire of the Summer Moon" is a pretty good read on the generational war
between Europeans and Comanches between about 1836 and the founding year of
A&M, 1876.
