Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Joe Rogan - Stories of Native American History" video.

  1. Treating the Outsider like shit is a pretty universal human trait, mainly because we are the descendants of the tribes that were the most ruthless (in most cases) and so survived to pass their genes on to the next generation. It's not that nice guys finish last. It's that nice guys are finished. One of the main exceptions to this that I can think of is the early Christian martyrs, who converted the Roman Empire with conspicuous passivity, and praises to their God on their lips as their bodies were ripped apart by lions.. Maybe another is the Christians who were raped and pillaged by Vikings. Starting in the 5th Century with the Anglo-Saxon invasions, a lot of British got raped or were more or less willingly married to the invading heathens. Both races got stronger, and the emerging culture was Christian, because Mom, and because the written word was a huge advantage to those who understood it. This is the flip side of the invading rapist. The invaded get new vigor, a less effete society, with a better idea of how to survive. However it turns out, in whatever era, the "winners" end up more poisoned by the losers' culture than the other way around, sometimes, although it may be that Christianity was more patriarchal through the middle ages, because of the war gods brought over on Anglo-Saxon boats, glorifying battle prowess and might making right. Not some twisted Druid who gets maybe 50% of it right, and the other 50% is oppressive, institutional craziness. Humans are pretty cool. Sucks we have to fight, but the survivors are generally pretty eclectic and the resulting culture tends to take on superior aspects of both. Like a really insane gene-mixing that everybody knows the race needs, but nobody can express in words. Just looking around, seeing things are getting soft or stupid, and herding up to go do something stupid, like invite an invader.
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