There can be no doubt that every empire in history as far as we know of them and can define them, was brutal, savage and we can enjoy a good riddance to them all. We can also mark how the modern world is defined by what has gone before but the fact that the western…
Tag: Aztec
The Myopia Of Privilege
I often wonder when exactly the perverse ability of human beings to ignore another person’s suffering or to become blind to other people entirely, begins or arises? How the Roman gentry walked around their cities oblivious to the drudgery of slaves all around them, buying and selling human beings without a thought to anything but…