Only in a barbaric society is it common and necessary for all children to be targets of violence by some aspect of every major institution. Society can never ever rise beyond this level of barbarianism. The society can never become a civilization. It can try to fake it. It can try to psych out its own people into believing what is not. Despite what a society claims is worthy of praise and despite its collective efforts, no society can cover up or hide its barbaric behaviors unless it covers up itself and remains motionless. Yet, this would only have a momentary effect because anyone encountering the cover would notice its disfigurement and anyone briefly inspecting or analyzing what's underneath would notice the same.Per Strabo, a Greek, the Romans were barbarians. (1)
Ancestor Diop stated that the Roman empire had “the most ferocious slave system man has ever invented.” (2)
Diop also states that Sparta, a Greek state, was “the most confirmed slave state of all time.” (3)
Even so, “...the Greeks and Romans did not create the “color-bar” that is so prevalent in every aspect of “Western” life today and for the past two-hundred (200) years. The closest to this was Aristotle's reference to the barbarians in his remarks justifying slavery in Greece on the basis of the slaves “innate difference” (race) and “ability” to others (Greeks). Yet, Aristotle was referring to the “barbarians,” of whom a large amount were in fact the antecedents of European-Americans today called such names as “Caucasian” and “Semite,” also “Hamite.” The barbarians were of a special economic and social class, not of any particular color or physical type (race).” (4) The Greek and Romans passed barbaric behaviors on to their children and their slave children. All this barbarianism accumulated into their children, the Americans. In 2008, the U. S. House Of Representatives states:
“Whereas slavery in America resembled no other form of involuntary servitude known in history, as Africans were captured and sold at auction like inanimate objects or animals; Whereas Africans forced into slavery were brutalized, humiliated, dehumanized, and subjected to the indignity of being stripped of their names and heritage; Whereas enslaved families were torn apart after having been sold separately from one another; Whereas the system of slavery and the visceral racism against persons of African descent upon which it depended became entrenched in the Nation’s social fabric;” (5) In 1793, Count Volney states, “But to return to Egypt : this historical fad affords to philosophy an interesting subject of reflection. How are we astonished when we behold the present barbarism and ignorance of the Copts, descended from the profound genius of the Egyptians, and the brilliant imagination of the Greeks, when we reflect; that to the race of Negroes, at present our slaves, and the objects of our extreme contempt, we owe our arts, sciences, and even the very use of speech; and when we recollect that, in the midst of those nations who call themselves the friends of liberty and humanity, the most: barbarous of slaveries is justified; and that it is even a problem whether the understanding of Negroes be of the same species with that of white men!” (6)
By virtue of its own existence, a society that has decided suboptimal is the overall way or suboptimal components are part of the way, must reach barbaric conclusions and dead ends. Since the whole approach is not in sync with the continuous nature of life and existence via an optimal ecosystem approach, neither can the society take care of itself in such a way that ensures it will continue. It can't happen and won't happen. Whatever the society does to destroy harmony weakens and destroys itself. History is strewn with these remains. By this we know that even our beloved Kemet could only have fallen prey by becoming predatory itself. Kemet, due to its imperialistic invasions of other lands, breached the boundaries of barbaric behaviors and opened the double-swinging doors to its own destruction. Kemet embodied enough defects to make it subject to inner, outer and utter destruction. How much more so have other groups suffered a similar fate whose defects are even more widespread? “Empires” might sound good to deadened eardrums that beat in monotone, but empires are expressways to end games of self-extinction. It is better to be optimal than to be maximal. After thousands of years of sitting atop peak after peak, Kemet fell because it lost its sense of balance. Balance, in accordance with Maat, is the only inheritance that ensures children will not become barbarians.
(1) Diop, Cheikh Anta, Civilization Or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology: Translated from the French by Yaa-Lengi Meema Ngemi (Chicago Review Press, 1991), p. p. 379.
(2) Ibid., p. 186.
(3) ibid., p. 187.
(4) ben-Jochannan, Yosef, “Africa: Mother of Western Civilization,” (Black Classic Press: 1988), p. vii, paraphrased.
(5) Text of Apologizing for the enslavement and racial segregation of African-Americans. (U. S. House Of Representatives)
(6) Travels through Syria and Egypt, in the years 1783, 1784, and 1785, Vol I. By Volney, C.-F. (Constantin-François)
