If anything is worthy of worship, it’s the sun. It literally gives us life. All the energy you’ve ever had ultimately came from the sun.
damn i had no idea that book existed, i always thought @solaranus@hexbear.net was a d&g reference
Real talk I used to make fun of astrology, and later I learned to chill out about it and not be such a nerd and let people enjoy things.
But then recently I was part of a conversation that 2 people turned into a tangent about astrology and they went on and on for about 5 minutes about extremely detailed personal qualities of Scorpios, down to how they supposedly react to a long list of very specific scenarios, and how this was a good way to understand and predict the actions of a couple of specific people they knew.
I realized I wasn’t actually ready to stop being really annoyed by astrology.
I recently saw a hot take that being anti-astrology is actually a form of misogyny because astrology believers are predominantly women.
Typical Libra, am I right?
No, my plan to build a continent sized rocket booster and yeet Mercury in to Andromeda so the little fucker never retros it’s grade again is Astrology erasure.
On hexbear, nobody knows you’re a crab living on a geothermal vent in the Middle Atlantic Rift, eating snails that have grazed sulfur-eating bacteria all their life
I’m in the first or second chapter of 's Dawn of Everything, and the unearned arrogance the Europeans display to the indigenous Americans is constantly thrown back in their faces.
“You don’t feed the hungry, even when when you have food to spare?”
“The only reason your men obey you is because you compel them with fear of violence?”
He goes on to argue that “enlightenment” ideals of human freedom and equality entered the primitive European brainpan through their experiences with truly free people who actually embraced equality. It’s a fun read
Dawn of Everything is the first book I would hand to a lib if I was going to try and turn them into a Marxist. Gotta shake those “west is best” and “muh human nature” brainworms first before you will get anywhere, IMO
If you’re into the Indigenous critique of colonial capitalist patriarchy / settler society or whatever name you like, As We Have Always Done by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a must read. I am telling everyone.
I’ve been reading “The Many-Headed Hydra” and it covers a similar idea. However it is focused on the Northern Atlantic and Anglos. They go into some detail about the wreck of the ship Sea Venture and the mutiny to stay free on Bermuda rather than return to class based rule. That wreck actually inspired The Tempest
Christian missions are the indoctrination and cultural genocide that the West loves to project onto its enemies. No, teaching kids how to brush their teeth is not cultural genocide - eradicating entire religions is!
My god is real and if you look at it your eyes will burn.
It’s honestly still a mystery to me how they managed to brute force their way into hegemony, time and time again. Joyless, drab, unappealing…and yet they somehow got the numbers to pull this shit off in the first place.
Guns, manufactured goods, liquor, guns, sugar, medicine, guns, and guns.
One of the common tactics was to pick one ethnic group or whatever to be the “civilized” group, then give them guns and tell them that if they want to continue to get guns they’d better get the rest of the region under control, quick, or the guns would stop. YOu make one group really powerful, but not as powerful as your troops, then use them as a club to beat the rest of the region in to submission while also making your aid contingent on wearing clothes, drinking tea, producing export crops, etc.
Going back further, I wanna know how they even managed to secure enough power to pull off shit like the crusades – How Christianity became an institution in the first place. I need to look into that at some point.
It had the advantage of the pre-existing structure of the Roman Empire. Religions catch on fast when there’s a ton of money, swords, and land already associated with it. Also helped that the Roman religion didn’t care too much about heresy or adopting new gods, so the average Roman citizen didn’t care that Jupiter is now Jehova. A lot of early Christianity was like madlibs, just changing the names of various polytheistic deities into various Christian things.
Some early Christians in England for instance would emphasis the similarity of Jesus on the cross with Odin dying on the world tree.
Also material reasons
