These marauders who became rich in the New World definitely know how to hold onto all that wealth! It is a simple, time honored recipe.

Keep the poor in starving and overpopulated conditions of deprivation. Whenever they begin to complain and have expectations of consideration from the aristocratic classes this is a sign. The descendants of these marauders know that their human slave army is ready to turn out of the country. They do this by squeezing them just a bit more, for instance, raising the price of tortillas by 300% in a few weeks. Oh yes, for extra effect they will jail the only educated people who will speak for poor, the teachers and other lower middle class tradespeople.

Yes wh...

These marauders who became rich in the New World definitely know how to hold onto all that wealth! It is a simple, time honored recipe.

Keep the poor in starving and overpopulated conditions of deprivation. Whenever they begin to complain and have expectations of consideration from the aristocratic classes this is a sign. The descendants of these marauders know that their human slave army is ready to turn out of the country. They do this by squeezing them just a bit more, for instance, raising the price of tortillas by 300% in a few weeks. Oh yes, for extra effect they will jail the only educated people who will speak for poor, the teachers and other lower middle class tradespeople.

Yes when the poor become overpopulated, turn them into an angry, undereducated, displaced, and dehumanized horde and turn out of your aristocratic countries. Keep the meek and mild who have been breed into submissiveness. Then threaten your neighbors and call them racist because they don't want to pay for your own government's problems.


This is another trick the Spaniards learned, early on, when they conquered the Aztecs and stole their country. Always stir up the poor neighbors, infect them with diseases(e.g.smallpox in the 1500's) and point them at your neighbor (enemy). They learned that trick fighting the Moors. Did your mama tell you that?

History is not a science, it is an art form who's purpose, is to frame the legacy or condemnation of a time through the eyes of the writer. Sometimes it is accurate, like a portrait. Sometimes artistic license is considered an acceptable justification for making something ugly beautiful or the reverse. The problem becomes clear when there are conflicting reports or evidence. Sometimes they can suggest what didn't happen, but don't make what did any clearer. One historian can only see a small fraction of the world around around them, so history is a collaborative effort.
Wikki:
"Financially broke after the Granada campaign, the monarchs left it to the royal treasurer to shift funds among vari...

History is not a science, it is an art form who's purpose, is to frame the legacy or condemnation of a time through the eyes of the writer. Sometimes it is accurate, like a portrait. Sometimes artistic license is considered an acceptable justification for making something ugly beautiful or the reverse. The problem becomes clear when there are conflicting reports or evidence. Sometimes they can suggest what didn't happen, but don't make what did any clearer. One historian can only see a small fraction of the world around around them, so history is a collaborative effort.
Wikki:
"Financially broke after the Granada campaign, the monarchs left it to the royal treasurer to shift funds among various royal accounts on behalf of the enterprise. Columbus was to be made "Admiral of the Seas" and would receive a portion of all profits. The terms were unusually generous, but as his own son later wrote.
The monarchs did not really expect him to return"
The Portugese and the Spanish were competing for trading routes. In 1494, it was declared through Papal intervention that the Portugese had trading rights to the east. Spanish were granted rights to the west. Columbus thought there was a short cut to India. He was wrong. In 1500 the Spanish hit the Jackpot.They discovered Brazil. Columbus' behavior may have been effected, by the fact that as far as anyone was concerned America was as far away from the known civilized world as anyone could get at the time.
When Europeans arrived in the north, they found a land generally free of inhabitants apart from a few Indians. As there was expansion westward, the settlers were preceded by diseases like smallpox, so many of the original inhabitants were wiped out by disease before the settlers arrived. In return they took back Syphilis. It it reported to be linked to the Naples Syphilis outbreak of 1494.These are details that are subject to dispute but are as accurate as much other recorded history is believed to be.Hero is a relative term.

Culture is a continuing struggle for meaning, the best art and history
for instance are challenges to the dead weight of received attitudes
and values.

I received my introduction to American history in the '50s. I daresay that the history books at that time were little more than the official government, sanitized propaganda. Inspiring to a 7 year old but not really grounded in reality.

Someone asked the other day why intelligent westerners seem to hate their culture.

Could this question possibly come from someone who has been fed the sanitized version of history? It seems as though some people treat history like religion. They want it to represent a neat and eas...

Culture is a continuing struggle for meaning, the best art and history
for instance are challenges to the dead weight of received attitudes
and values.

I received my introduction to American history in the '50s. I daresay that the history books at that time were little more than the official government, sanitized propaganda. Inspiring to a 7 year old but not really grounded in reality.

Someone asked the other day why intelligent westerners seem to hate their culture.

Could this question possibly come from someone who has been fed the sanitized version of history? It seems as though some people treat history like religion. They want it to represent a neat and easy to digest dogma of what the country stands for. Of course, this robs it of all vitality and humanness. So to protect their view of history they attack the ones who question or point out that history has differing interpretations depending on the current cultural milieu and the mind set of the historian.

Just my ramblings...