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To: ggersh who wrote (59861)4/1/2017 1:37:30 PM
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fair comment. I did look at that civilization link from the 1960's. Very interesting.

However, we only have the authors word that civilization is better then chaotic ensemble created by the barbarians. The human race did survive up to the Greeks and the Romans.

The written record is poor how things went during the dark age. People say the Nazis were bad when they hung people slowly with piano wire, but actually I would guess the death is faster and less painful then crucifixion, the standard punishment by the Romans for anything not liked for any reason. Yet in school we are taught that the Romans "brought civilization to the world". Hmmm. Now the Roman propaganda says the Celts were really cruel as they set human sacrifices on fire in wicker baskets, and that is bad. Good thing nobody uses any of these practices today -nfg- (eg phos, WTC1&2 etc).

Maybe he is right, but not necessarily so. It is an assumption, maybe a good one... but it is an assumption that the life for the average person was worse for the barbarians. The Norse did OK for a long period, but they enslaved a lot of Irish while making a buck or too in the raiding and pillaging biz. Very different from our civilization today, as any child worker will tell you making leading fashion clothes in SEA. -nfg-

So... the key point from Larry is....

"He teed it up this way: I had a choice. I could be an insider or I could be an outsider. Outsiders can say whatever they want. But people on the inside don’t listen to them. Insiders, however, get lots of access and a chance to push their ideas. People — powerful people — listen to what they have to say. But insiders also understand one unbreakable rule: They don’t criticize other insiders."

i.e "People-powerful people-listen to what they have to say". There... there is where the pivot point is for our "civilization" today. That pivot point needs rocking a little, and the hoards of barbarians are the ones to do it.
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