I was trying to think of who wins. But more interesting is who is doomed. The american aboriginals, "indians" or "native" "americans", were doomed. The europeans were as numerous as the leaves of the trees, per Sitting Bull after Custer was sent to his own place.
The Central Powers of WWI had a chance, Germany etc, but they/it was/were central because they, yes they were surrounded. Custer eventually, finally learned that being surrounded is bad. The Allies, us, need not have had any natural affinity -- no compelling shared self-interest. Which of these things, allies is like the others: Russian, um, Portuguese, British colingualists (yes, that is a word ... now)? It's arbitrary.
The Aztecs, so called, were a conquering minority oppressive warrior imperial aristocracy. So, fitting forefatherx of the racist La Raza Supremacists, MEChA -- their vulture logo is holding dynamite. I wish we could hear more about that, from biden and his minions -- he can continue calling all conservatives "White Supremacists", because some ignorance is invincible. But open it up a little, Joe, inclusiveness -- like the way Hell and america have expanded their borders. Boarders pay. 'Minion', from French mignon, meaning darling or lover, and earlier dainty or gentle -- cf 'fillet mignon'.
Words mean more than they mean, but they mean what they mean. So I am a native american. I am not aboriginal, a word that sounds hard, but it's easy. Original. Not that any surviving aboriginal is authentic. Virtually everyone is here, wherever, because they have displaced someone previous. Corporately, that is, as in corporate guilt. We hear too much about guilt, and not enough about shame.
Remember (as if you ever heard of it) the genocidal Bantu expansion further south in Africa. Reduced the Khoisan peoples into mere clicky freakshow hottentot Bushmen. The gods must be crazy. Survival of the fittest, though. To the victors go the spoils. But will African Americans pay reparations to the peoples their ancestors enslaved and exterminated? Just saying.
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The supposedly aboriginal Clovis culture -- 12,700-13,400 years before present (BP) -- did it ... absorbed, displace and exterminated. They evicted, replaced, appropriated any number of earlier oppressed minorities. Who? Which? -- Well, paleontology does not acknowlege individual personalities, but, speaking Hemispherically (like some obedient critically racist theoreticians), the evil racist Clovis culture monsters exterminated (what else?) ancient authentic cultures from perhaps 14k to almost 50k years ago.
- Cueva Fell (Chile) 12k-14k BP,
- Paisley Caves (Oregon) 14.3k BP,
- Buttermilk Creek complex (Texas) 15.5k BP,
- Meadowcroft Rockshelter (Pennsylvania) 16k-19k BP,
- Cactus Hill (Virginia) and the
- Topper site (South Carolina) 16k-20k BP,
- Monte Verde (Chile) 18.5k BP,
- White Sands (New Mexico) 21k - 23k BP,
- Pedra Furada hearths (Brazil) 32k-48k BP
Are these sites significant? Sometimes it's just a very few artifacts. But under the next stone might be found the treasures of Atlantis or Lemuria or Mu. It's like cockroaches. If you see one, you know there are unseen thousands.
Are these dates real? As real as assumption allows. There's inevitably major controversy in this fascinating but minor discipline, because the field worker who uncovers the oldest artifacts gets a sort of limited fame, textbook fame, news-byte fame, and the previous record-holding scholar is going to object. It's not objective, it's competitive, ego plus plausibility. This sort of truth is not about reality -- it's about consistency.
Point is, there's always someone who came before. Sometimes that's an advantage, and sometimes it's a genocide. Do not take my dogmatic assertion as gospel. An easy read is, say, the Book of Joshua. God orders multiple genocides. Don't even need to read about it though. The Flood -- all the human race wiped out, almost. On purpose. That's the universe we live in, and the God who made it, and allowed it to Fall. Don't complain about it, and don't lie. Redeem it, in your own life ... that's the second part of the Book
If first, the first to set foot on the soil, if that really mattered, Antarctica would be Russian and the moon would be American. Except that any number of hapless mariners will have been cast upon the frigid shelves and floes of the utmost antipodes. Cretans and Phoenicians and Vikings and Polynesians and Odysseuses and Saint Brendans -- the empire of castaways. As for the moon, everyone knows the nazis got there first.
The Jews didn't prevail -- they persevered. The fact that there were always new oppressors simply means that the previous oppressors faded away. So there it is. Outlasting is the same as winning.
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