Agriculture vs Pastoralism: Nietzsche And The Indo-European Invasion - 双语字幕
In the Biblical story of Cain and Abel,
we have a record of one of the most important conflicts in the history of mankind, the conflict between the agriculturalists and the pastoralists.
Perhaps the very same story told in the mythological war between the titans and the Olympians, deer, and the vania.
horses, backlit by the blazing sun.
You drop your tools and run for the village walls, but it is too late.
You cannot outrun the horses.
The Indo-Europeans were a pneumatic people who first harnessed the power of the domesticated
horse and the chariot to expand out from the rush step,
conquering the native farmer populations of Europe,
the Middle East, and spreading all the way to India, imposing their gods and caste systems upon the local populations.
We from skeletal remains that the Indo-Europeans were much larger than the native European farmers.
and had larger skulls with stronger jaws, likely due to their diets rich in dairy.
The agriculturalists had smaller statues and skeletal structures, and were likely vulnerable to disease due to their diets and lifestyle.
In all Indo-European religions, there exists the record of the of a colossal war between two races of gods.
In Greek mythology it is the war between the Titans and the Olympians,
in mythology between the Aesir and the Vanir, and in Hinduism between the Devas and the Asuras.
Some have speculated that this could be a record of the Indo-European conquest of the native farmer populations,
whose gods were subsequently overthrown and submitted to the rule of the Indo-European deities.
Many have pointed to the fact that the older generation of gods,
the titans and the Vanir, generally seem to represent more pathonic forces, while the elimination of the Europeans and Aesir are more celestial in nature.
However, it's not quite so simple, and it could be argued that it is more likely that
the story is much older and traveled with the Indo-Europeans.
Either way,
as we know from the fact that we are sitting in houses right now, the agricultural of life would eventually prevail over the nomadic way.
As the nomadic Indo-Europeans settled in their conquered lands,
they were integrated into agricultural societies and became the ruling castes of the great civilizations of Europe and the Near East.
Thus, while their nomadic lifestyle values and religious customs of the Indo-Europeans were preserved in the aristocracies of the ruling castes of these societies.
However, the agriculturalists would eventually prevail in this regard too.
Nisha called this the transvaluation of all values, or the slave revolt immorality.
in which the European pagan aristocratic ethos was overthrown by the slave religion of Christianity,
Nietzsche The opposing values, good and bad, good and evil, have fought a dreadful thousand-year fight in the world.
And though, in dutably, the second one.
value has been for a long time in the preponderance.
There are not wanting places where the fortune of the fight is still indecisive.
It can almost be said that in the meanwhile the fight reaches a higher and higher level and that in the meanwhile it has become more and more intense and always
more and more psychological,
so that nowadays there is perhaps no more decisive mark of the higher nature of the more psychological nature than to be in that sense self-contradictory,
and to be actually still a battleground for those two opposites.
The symbol of the fight.
written in a writing which has remained worthy of pursuit throughout the course of history,
up to this present time, is called Rome against Judea, Judea, against Rome.
Nietzsche this because Christianity,
which began among the Jews who are conquered by Rome and was formed as a reaction,
to Roman power,
would eventually conquer Rome and even all of Europe, slowly eating away at the traces of the values and religions of the Indo-Europeans.
Nietzsche writes that this reversal of the pagan aristocratic ethos was completed with the French Revolution,
which overturned the last of the Indo-European aristocracy,
and that Napoleon was the last chance to return to the aristocratic warrior ethos of the Indo-Europeans.
The story of Cain killing Abel on the one hand represents the slave cast of farmers who were conquered by the pneumatic peoples,
rising on up and killing their masters,
and the other hand, the larger conflict between the pastoralist and agricultural lifestyles in which agricultural civilization eventually won out.
For this reason,
we can see that it is fitting that the field,
the place of agriculture, is able to kill him, the way of the nomadic pastoralists dies in the field.
In the story of Adam and Eve,
being cast out of Eden was representative of the transition from animal to man,
and from a hunter-gatherer way of life into a more civilized one.
bit in fruit was being bound to the earth in toilsome agricultural labor, and punishment was being bound to Adam in painful childbirth.
But in this story of Abel and Cain,
we see that a remnant of the free way of life, of life in Eden remains, the pneumatic pastoral life-style represented by Abel.
Cain has inherited Adam's curse of being bound to the Earth, but Abel is free from it, living instead off of his mobile flocks.
In the story of Cain and Abel,
the victory of the agricultural way of life is represented as a bad thing,
almost as a second fall from Eden." In Genesis 4, after Cain kills Abel, God says to Cain, What have you done?
The voice of your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground,
so now you are cursed from the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
When you tilt the ground,
it shall no longer yield its strength to you,
a fugitive and a vagabond you shall be on the earth."
After killing Abel, Cain becomes an outcast, just as Adam and Eve first became outcasts among God's creations when they acquired higher cognition.
Further, Adam's punishment of agricultural labor becoming painful is replicated as the ground is made even harder to till for Cain.
Genesis goes on to say that Enoch, Cain's son, created cities, a further estrangement from nature.
But the time of this ancient biblical story, we have created industrial and now...
what might even be called digital society, making us even more far removed from Eden.
Of agricultural, industrial, and digital civilization have landed us great benefits, but they have also come with a great danger.
The danger of permanently losing the grace and power of our ancestors, the danger of a never-ending descent into the abyss.
The farther we stray from living in alignment with nature and nature's laws,
the less free we become, and the less we are favored by the gods.
Given the current direction of our civilization,
we will all end up being frail, sickly creatures, living in an industrial slum, living the lives of insects.
But it is not too late to aim for a different future.
It is not too late to correct the course of human civilization and to reestablish a free way of life in alignment.
with the principles of nature for those who desire it.
Though we may not ride horses through the open plains again,
we can still aspire to a life on the Olympian heights,
a life among the cool,
free clouds,
a life with eyes set on distant peaks,
and when the masses of man man,
all look down and drown themselves in filth and ugliness, is it not all a sweeter to be one of the few who looks up?
I'll see you next time.
I've got a lot You Thanks for
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