HOW WE BECAME SERFS and they became FEUDAL LORDS!

THE FIRST AGRARIAN PEOPLES in 7000 BC "CATAL HUYUK"

Contributed/ written by a Knowledgeable Brit,
*Alfred Douglas of Rye, Sussex, England who writes:

WHEN in ancient times could LEADERS have emerged? How did they do it?
How did just a FEW DISTINGUISH themselves sufficiently to seize control
of the minds of the others, to the point of enslaving them? And how?
What kind of conditions would it take to make an agrarian tribe or
village SOCIETY fall in line around one man?

At some point the egalitarian, tribal village shifted to an inequal
playing field. We know this: that around 10,000 BC, after the last Ice Age
came to an end, farming was invented. Before that, humans were
hunter-gatherers, constantly on the move in search of food. So we had
landless families roaming.

As the ice retreated, areas supporting plants and animals expanded,
making life easier for the hunter-gatherers and inviting FARMING. Power
over the harvest. Consequently, there could be a rapid rise in human
populations.

In the Fertile Crescent of the Middle East, in Northern China, and in
northern India, people began to experiment with gathering seeds to plant
and grow into foodstuffs, and to domesticate useful animals. That way
they wouldn't have to move around so much and could rear more children.
So, settled communities grew up, with permanent houses, barns, ovens for
cooking meat and baking bread, for firing pottery for cooking or
storage, and surpluses that could be traded with other communities.

Surpluses of food also meant that a non-working class could be supported
for the first time. Hunter-gatherers couldn't carry any passengers -
everyone had to hunt and gather to survive. But a prosperous village
could produce enough of everything to keep a leisure class. Who were
these people? And how could they argue that everyone else should keep
them? Well, first there was the military. Guys who were good at handling
a spear could say, "Look, everything's going well, but those people
over the hill might come over some night and steal everything you've
worked hard to build up. But we're good with spears so we could be out
every night patrolling to make sure this doesn't happen, and if you are
ever attacked we'll fight them off. But of course we can't do that and
spend our time in the fields planting and reaping as well. Provide us
with houses, food, clothing, etc., and we'll concentrate on your defence".

Then the priests would say, "Yes, you're doing well right now, because
the gods favour you by giving you fertile soil and rain and sun at the
right seasons, but what if that were to stop? Ruin, that's what. Now we
priests are the experts in talking to the gods and making sure they stay
on our side by making the right sacrifices. But it's a complicated
business and needs to be done right. Placating the gods is a full time
job, so we can't spend our days out in the fields. But if you provide us
with ... etc, etc"

Then some alpha male would step out of the crowd and say, this is all
very well, but it's not going to organise itself is it? You need a
strong man in charge (such as me) to organise everything properly. And
I'll need a team who can count, to work out what everyone is producing
and tax them accordingly, to pay for the army and the priesthood and the
new - shall we call it a 'civil service'? "

And we've gone downhill ever since.

The largest Neolithic village in the Near East was Catal Huyuk, founded
7,000 BC in central Anatolia. See it reproduced at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87atalh%C3%B6y%C3%BCk

It had wide-ranging trade networks, outstanding wall paintings, shrines,
figurines, craftsmanship generally. But life expectancy was an average
of 34 for men, 29 for women, with a high incidence of arthritis, and
other back and joint problems resulting from lives of hard physical
labour. Of course some people lived to be over 60. You can guess who
they were. The hunter-gatherers had been much fitter and lived a lot
longer, but that way of life was no longer an option.

Today Catal Huyuk is the site of a vast American airbase in the modern
country of Turkey. The airbase was built to defend the 'Free World'
against Soviet Russia. The Soviet Union is gone but the airbase is still
there. There might be a moral in there somewhere.

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I went to that web site, looked at this unusual village. The houses were
ALL UNDERGROUND! shoulder to shoulder, no space between at all, the
entire village was like a hidden ANTHILL. No wall had a window, no hole,
no door in any house. There was a single hole in the roof, for smoke to
emerge. An oddly structured diagonal "ladder" led to this blow hole in
the rooftop thru which the entire family could enter or leave. The homes
were beautiful, spacious, as modern as a Beverly Hills minimalist
architect could do. Just look at the reconstructions archeologists made
from the ruins. Now, If an enemy came, he wouldn't see the village at
all! As it was entirely underground! If they heard pirates were heading
toward their coastline, or scouts saw brigands were near, all they had
to do was put out their cooking fires, the beautiful fireplace in each
home....put a lid on it. and they were invisible. Their village was in
minutes, as if a forest clearing.

Seeing it, I realize that most certainly we have been dumbed down.
It is time to stop being a SERF.

To do that, VISIT JERRY's REFRIGERATOR, and the TIN FOIL HAT CONSPIRACY THEORY WEBSITE and learn how to BE INVISIBLE

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