Notices by tuban_muzuru (tuban_muzuru@ohai.social), page 4

@inthehands

Getting the passport info will speed things up from the airlines' perspective. If they have the info up front, they can bind it to your boarding pass.

@inthehands

They don't get the lactobacillus joke...

@kaia

You may find something you like here...

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@phiofx @FantasticalEconomics @fifilamoura @jackofalltrades @the_Effekt @gerrymcgovern @jill_the_pill

The veneer of civilization is very thin. Man's greatest skill is his ability to lie to himself, to make excuses for the evil he does. That includes all that hierarchy / inequality and whatnot - selfishness and cruelty, it's all there, bubbling away, like the contents of our colons.

Time to face facts. Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

@violetmadder @jackofalltrades @phiofx @the_Effekt @gerrymcgovern @fifilamoura @jill_the_pill @FantasticalEconomics

The ancients were awful to each other - to their women, to their slaves.

Carl Sagan lays this out - folks, the only people to say good things of the ancient world were the slaveholders of later generations.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6518559-a-disdain-for-the-practical-swept-the-ancient-world-plato

@fifilamoura @violetmadder @jackofalltrades @phiofx @the_Effekt @gerrymcgovern @jill_the_pill @FantasticalEconomics

I'm trying to think about these different kinds of social systems - and though I look far and wide, I cannot find any which might vary from the general ugly trends.

@fifilamoura @violetmadder @jackofalltrades @phiofx @the_Effekt @gerrymcgovern @jill_the_pill @FantasticalEconomics

Google, that doth make geniuses of us all. Heh. I saw my first murder in 1966, knelt in the back of my father's little Peugeot, as a group of Yoruba men hacked one of my father's Igbo students to pieces.

No, we're not going there, Fifi. Anthropology is merely educated tourism: they come and visit and act as if they've been there all their lives.

@fifilamoura @violetmadder @jackofalltrades @phiofx @the_Effekt @gerrymcgovern @jill_the_pill @FantasticalEconomics

I believe, based on surviving three wars that mankind is a vicious little hominid whose technology outran his morals about the time iron was first forged.

He roams the earth like so many troops of baboons, making bad excuses for his murders, with appeals to Authority and Duty - that's where my bit comes in.

Not even the Fulani I knew, nomadic people, live without authority.

@fifilamoura @violetmadder @jackofalltrades @phiofx @the_Effekt @gerrymcgovern @jill_the_pill @FantasticalEconomics

Where are these societies-without-hierarchy? Name one. They do not exist - they have never existed.

@fifilamoura @violetmadder @jackofalltrades @phiofx @the_Effekt @gerrymcgovern @jill_the_pill @FantasticalEconomics

Stop wriggling. Which society manages without hierarchy?

@FantasticalEconomics @fifilamoura @jackofalltrades @phiofx @the_Effekt @gerrymcgovern @jill_the_pill

Ah yes, a mound building culture, of which we have no other record

This is Rousseau-ian horseshit: “In native political philosophy, power works for the collective, not the individual,”

Every native American culture of which I am aware had a hierarchical structure. Name one which didn't

@FantasticalEconomics @fifilamoura @jackofalltrades @phiofx @the_Effekt @gerrymcgovern @jill_the_pill

The Neolithic culture which build Göbekli Tepe in Anatolia lived a considerable distance from this perhaps-a-temple complex. Like the Poverty Point culture, it didn't live there.

Just because they didn't build a palace doesn't mean they didn't have a hierarchy. Those mounds would have required an intricate hierarchy to get the people there, feed them, house them.

@inthehands

I know that poem: "the ears"

@inthehands

Policemen say "Hands Hurt". Pay no attention to what they're saying - watch their hands, watch what they do.

All these Islamists want to tell us it's so great - we in the West had John Locke to tell us the combination of religion and politics led to massacres.

Nobody hates a Muslim more than a Shiite hates a Sunni - and vice versa.

@inthehands

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Left unsaid: after "The West" got rid of Saddam Hussein and established the groundwork for indigenous governments, by and for the people - helping to establish an Islamic Republic (read the first sentence of the Iraqi Constitution), Iran promptly abetted yet another iteration of the Sunni / Shiite War, going back to the dawn of Islam.

Iran has been playing at empire building, everywhere a few Shiites might be found.

@inthehands

2/2 Southern Lebanon, a landscape I know pretty well, is run by Hizb'allah, yet another branch of the Empire of Iran. It's a ripe old piece of codswallop to overlook Iran's backing of Hamas - but I stopped worrying about such things long ago.

For anyone who takes sides in these wars is a fool. I pay such people no mind, they've all got an effing Agenda.

@kaia

I've just started. I feel as if I'm riding a huge horse, barely hanging on, heh. Tremendous.

@BethanyBlack

Famously, Norman Rockwell painted a self portrait here: he's leaning forward, above and slightly behind the woman's head.

@DrOinFLA

When your entire message is outrage, you can't be that way and smile.

Q: What do Republicans use for birth control?

A: Their personalities.

@evan

I was 11 years old when I knelt in the back of my father's little Peugeot and watched a group of Yoruba men hack one of my father's Igbo students to pieces.

To pieces. Like a goat.

Human beings like to think they're very advanced, Einstein, Mozart, Da Vinci. They're just eight billion baboons, a culture of bullying from top to bottom, roaming the world in troupes, killing each other.

Genocide is way down deep in the human soul. Can it be evicted? I wonder.