It is only natural for a civilization and culture such as the European one which we have inherited so much from to view history as linear. It was the Europeans and their desire to know everything that propelled them to explore and dig into the past. No other people gathered so many ch information if only to see it from their perspective. The linearity is our way of putting it in order and your desire to know how people could live in their eternal present is part of that.
Beside that, isn’t the very bacteria that forms on the skin nature’s way of keeping it ‘clean’ much as the bacteria in the gut digests? We don’t need soap to survive. Soap is an aesthetic choice.
If you've not read it, I highly recommend "Provincializing Europe" by Dipesh Chakrabarty. His insight is that Europe's linearity is obvious to everyone else in the world except Europeans, who cannot seem to notice they're literally "inhabiting" the past (for instance, cities with thousands of years of history, cultural institutions that are continuations of Roman institutions, etc) and instead feel as if they've just recently invented everything around them and are somehow "secular."
I mention one bit of this in the first installment of the Mysteria, how all Liberal Democratic state and legal institutions are re-tooled theological principles.
I imagine there were more than a few Europeans who realized the perspective that an expanded knowledge of history gave them. It is the folks running the show who don’t see that their globalist view is in large measure provincial. We don’t necessarily need an outsider to tell us this. I’d bet they would more readily accept it if the critique came from there as a way of getting around the prejudice they have against their own.
Just want to hop in and say that this article probably did make me see soap in a new light, because a few weeks after I read it, I started ordering Nabulsi soap from palestiniansoap.com (not an ad! I just like them and recommend them). I also think more about the saponification process. The chemistry and physics of it that result in the "magic" feeling of your dirt combining with oil and ash and then washing away. Always cool when you read a cool article to get your day started, and then realize it's really influenced you.
It is only natural for a civilization and culture such as the European one which we have inherited so much from to view history as linear. It was the Europeans and their desire to know everything that propelled them to explore and dig into the past. No other people gathered so many ch information if only to see it from their perspective. The linearity is our way of putting it in order and your desire to know how people could live in their eternal present is part of that.
Beside that, isn’t the very bacteria that forms on the skin nature’s way of keeping it ‘clean’ much as the bacteria in the gut digests? We don’t need soap to survive. Soap is an aesthetic choice.
I shower daily by the way.
If you've not read it, I highly recommend "Provincializing Europe" by Dipesh Chakrabarty. His insight is that Europe's linearity is obvious to everyone else in the world except Europeans, who cannot seem to notice they're literally "inhabiting" the past (for instance, cities with thousands of years of history, cultural institutions that are continuations of Roman institutions, etc) and instead feel as if they've just recently invented everything around them and are somehow "secular."
I mention one bit of this in the first installment of the Mysteria, how all Liberal Democratic state and legal institutions are re-tooled theological principles.
I imagine there were more than a few Europeans who realized the perspective that an expanded knowledge of history gave them. It is the folks running the show who don’t see that their globalist view is in large measure provincial. We don’t necessarily need an outsider to tell us this. I’d bet they would more readily accept it if the critique came from there as a way of getting around the prejudice they have against their own.
I’m not familiar with that book.
Just want to hop in and say that this article probably did make me see soap in a new light, because a few weeks after I read it, I started ordering Nabulsi soap from palestiniansoap.com (not an ad! I just like them and recommend them). I also think more about the saponification process. The chemistry and physics of it that result in the "magic" feeling of your dirt combining with oil and ash and then washing away. Always cool when you read a cool article to get your day started, and then realize it's really influenced you.