From Africa to Siberia there are names of tribes that translate to “the only humans”, “the true humans, or simply, “humans”. Tribe chauvinism, in a small or great manner, appears even among egalitarian communities.
Referring to warlike and conquering societies, from the beginning of time till now, beliefs of superiority and supremacy are the foundation of their culture. The enslaved ones usually are referred to as uncivilized, filthy and defiled. Recently at a public office, I witnessed the sum of the public servants smoking and chatting away of their duties, harshly criticizing the heavy smell of foreign working people while using public transport.
The life of an enslaved man worths much less than the ones of the “civilized”. Actions of terrorism in Europe and North America are thoroughly examined by the Media for several days. The same time, endless murders by the constant bombardments and the terrorism spread by the western method “divide and rule”, are hardly presented. Public opinion is highly moved by the murder of a westerner trapped in the madness of war, but not by the ruthless killings of the natives.
There is an obvious supremacy upon which every warlike society sanctifies its actions. Kyros, Alexander, Napoleon, and the Bush, matched their wars with the spread of a superior civilization for the benefit of the enslaved. Sargon’s and Hitler’s audacity was limited to justifying their conquests to the pure supremacy of their tribes and nations.
The feelings of supremacy expressed by the Athenians before they destroyed Milos killing all males are described by Thucydides like: It has always been like this and it will always be, and therefor we are not the ones to go against the reality that, the most powerful impose their will to the weaker and it is for the benefit of the weaker to go along with the will of the strong.
Both the progeny of the Athenians and of the enslaved women and children of Milos, along with the progeny of the Spartans and of the Helots, were enslaved by the Macedonians, and later on all of them were enslaved by the Romans. Each dominant society and each slave society, sooner or later, has become slave society of a new appearing dominant society. Middle East is an extreme example of this: Starting from Sargon 4.300 years ago and ending to the British and French colonialism of the 20th century, the overlappings of the dominant societies were continuous. Dozens and hundreds of civilizations have extinct along with those who forced them to extinction.
Now, Akkads, Sumerians, Assyrians and innumerous more are found -at best- as archaeological discoveries or, maybe, as genes spread around the globe. The superiority upon which the warlike dominant behaviour of these societies was built, is long gone along with them due to the dominating violence of their opponents. Through centuries though, from one dominant society to the one that destroyed it, passed unchanged the worse of all human inventions, the most noxious, and the one that leads the way of humanity towards catastrophe:
The transformation of weapons to tools of production, and the enslaved humans to productive herds, or said otherwise, the coercion of humans to live -partly or totally- for the benefit of other humans.
The dominion and the coercion are the heritage upon which all modern societies are built, while existing as the -by force- Inheritors of the Sargon and the Akkad Empire.
Even though in our societies the subsistent violence and coercion are well hid under colorful floodlit masks, they are still necessary for the continuity of each dominant society, and their true face reveals itself each time the fables, the teachings and the extortions fail.
It’s been for centuries now that, dominant societies are no longer racial. The dominant society of the Roman Empire 1.500 years ago had incorporated parts of all the enslaved societies forming a racial and cultural mosaic.
Each modern state defines itself as a nation, a newly introduced doctrine of cohesion, an inheritor of the race and the tribe. The nation doctrine however, deliberately hides its foundation which would be unaccepted inside any tribe: the ability of some humans to dominate and put force upon other humans.
The meaning of nation thoroughly hides its origin, that by far is not the race and the tribe, but instead it is the violence and the force put by a dominant society to an enslaved one. The meaning of nation is so absurd, like putting the Spartans and the Helots together, telling them that from now on they will have common goals and common interests, while -as it has always been- the first undistracted will keep on forcing and dominating the second.
Each nation and each state is today the equivalent of what empires were in the past: a dominant society in constant war with its enslaved societies. This, stands even if these warring societies, by the persistent teachings and practices of the rulers, jointly are self determined as a single race or a single nation.
> How is, nowadays viewed by the cultural context, the authority of a dominant society applied upon its vassal societies?
The supremacy of one tribe upon others is no longer an accepted doctrine and this more or less is verified by the wordings of the Constitutions and the Laws of most nations. It’s not unusual, however, for these constitutions and laws to hold their legitimacy only inside parliaments, international conferences and official documents, while not in people’s lives. Nevertheless, in most states of the world, if someone declare publicly something like “I force this human to do whatever I ask him to since he belongs to an inferior human race than I”, he would face a general outcry.
Coercion though is more present than ever. Never before in the human history there were so many people producing so much wealth in behalf of so few people. Never before in the human history there were so enormous inequalities between the dominating societies and their vassals. Coercion is no longer established upon teachings suggesting that the dominating society, legally due to its race superiority or to divine commands, can compel its vassal societies. Coercion today is established upon a unique invention that makes the vassals jointly responsible for their submission, an invention that even makes the vassals willing to impose the submission they suffer to more people.
Coercion today is established upon a relatively new teaching suggesting that humans are separated to successful ones and failed ones, and each one lives compelling or compelled, depending on his placement on the scale of success or failure. According to this teaching the responsibility for the success or failure is personal and assigned to one’s industriousness, intelligence, fate or god’s will.
In reality, the fable of successful and failed people says that:
- Those who first among all are willing to lose any sense of self-dignity and empathy for their fellow humans,
- Those who first among all are willing to intrigue, peculate, extort and act violently,
- Those who more than any other are oozing arrogance, rapacity and greed,
- Those who more than any other are indifferent to the human characteristics of cooperation and mutual respect,
Those are the successful ones that are entitled to compel all others to the standards of their arrogance, rapacity and greed.
Nowadays, the fable of the supremacy of the successful is the inheritor of the fable of the race supremacy, serving the same cause, forming the cultural context in which the dominant societies compel their vassal ones.
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Sargon, king of Akkad
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