First were the explorers…Blue-Ocean types who pushed the envelope.
Hand-in-hand were the missionaries who hitched the ride…to ends of Earth.
After Commerce and Creed, are the Commanders… Gotta to have them, to deal with pirates and prisoners…
Then the loot, the merchandise and the money…back into the Capitalists’ coiffeur.
There you go. The history of man as we know it.
Calvinists and Columbus….are linked and worked in tandem.
First the blessing of the vessel (before) then the blessing of the foods – spice from afar (after).
As long as you pontificate and take the high road – “to civilise” ‘m savages (per Calvinistic theology, those salvages were pre-ordained, not to run around naked…but to be dressed in 100% cotton).
When early settlers went West, for Gold Rush or per God’s latest revelation to the White Men, “God” blessed’m, with T-shirts and hamburgers – McWorld, not the Others. Then in the 70’s the Others got doubly-blessed with oily stuff squirting from the ground….Voila…the Saudi Princes….on their yachts as it is in Heaven.
They sat not on the throne; but might as well on gold-plated toilet seats.
They were like that Egyptian King in 300 where no arrows can touch. Their hobbies were none others than Arabian horses and un-masked Russian women (DJT pee-tape rumour).
Meanwhile, Islamic kids have been learning the Koran by heart – No Child Left Behind.
Then they pushed the envelope: let them learn not just the Holy Book, but also how to fly (as if Architectural studies in Hamburg were beneath them).
So we awarded them wings…out of all places, Sarasota, Florida where Bush was trying to push “No Child Left Behind”… in an Elementary class ; half-way through, he was forced to be on his war footing (apparently, he abandoned No Child Left Behind – to this present day, only to push for another version of it in today’s Kabul).
History is full of irony.
“Abraham! Listen…Go to the ends of the Earth…subdue them…make them believers”…
Both sides hear the same calling. But only One monotheism version can stand …hence, the duel to the death.
It’s been 20 years since NYC got knocked off of its two front teeth (Tom Wolfe). It got an implant, for substitute, for “steeling” our resolve.
McWorld is thriving again…Jesus vs Jihadist…the battle continues…
It’s not just blood draining. It’s coiffeur and patience. Twenty years of a war of attrition, a drop in a 4,000 years bucket.
Kids not only got left behind. They got killed on their flights out of Boston on that fateful Fall day.
Millions of pages after (9/11 Commission Report) We still haven’t put the nail on the coffin of that eternal struggle. Mind-set problems? No problems! We’ve got a military solution ready to go, right at this minute (Air Force).
THE WORST WE HAVE DONE IS NOT AN EYE_FOR_AN_EYE. THE WORST IS WHEN AFGHAN WOMEN AND GIRLS GOT A TASTE FOR IT _ ALL DRESSED UP _ NO PLACE TO GO.
I am glad the Saudi women finally not beheaded but are getting their licenses to drive.
I am glad the Taliban mentioned that women will have a place at the table (politically) – that’s what they said.
I am glad at the Olympics, we have seen many female athletes getting medals…perhaps it’s not the duel to the death between ideologies (interpretations of the revelation) but 1+1=3 to include Mother Earth whom we depend on so much for our continuation of life – rightly or wrongly….we will find out, after the dust settled.
After 20 years, NYC 9/11 acrid smell and dust sure have …but new dangers and new challenges are here… with a new Giuliani variant ..Delta variant and the Dome (climate).
I am not wasting time regarding pre-destination vs free will debate. But I know if we keep leaving Child Behind, they will learn and know the Terrorist version on line by heart….And when the flood keeps rising, when the adults keep supplying drugs and guns…they will join any fight or flight school to become and belong to something bigger than themselves, not to mention to live however briefly for the greater glory..( and to have an orgy with unmasked virgins on the other side of death – Paradise).
First the commerce, then the creed, and finally the conquest for commerce…. Told you, It’s the greed that grinds the wheel, gyrating in circular motion from time eternal.
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