[pagan-magik] UP! 260// Confessions of a Love & Cooperation Dissident// 13 08 07
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Mon Aug 13 03:53:44 BST 2007
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think about this seriously. it's something i've been advocating for
yeeeears now. wouldn't an out and out collapse of the entire economic
system by which we are all increasingly run be the best thing that could
happen for us and the planet? indeed, isn't the present collapse caused
by exactly what they call it: a loss of Confidence? and aren't the
reasons for THAT becoming more obvious and undeniable by the day?
sure, there will be Tragedy involved in such a development, but might it
not be less than if we go on trusting that the competitive, amoral,
short-term, selfish, corrupt and 'elite-managed' Albatross around our
necks will change itself? wouldn't such a collapse, in fact, be the
very fundamental system change that's called for? the regime change
required?
we're facing Great Turmoil, whatever we do, but, if the System collapses
quickly, totally and cleanly, might we not actually have a chance of
surviving, by reaching the state which the Hippies prescribed: a
lowering of our consumption demands by 50% and a raising of our
spiritual level to a respect, and indeed a worship of Mother Nature?
just consider it. you don't have to DO anything. (we used to organise
friday meditations where we'd project negative vibes at the stock
exchange) but you certainly might worry less, and celebrate more, as
5000 years of Karmic Shit increasingly hits the Fan :)
for it's blowing us closer to Megatripolis - the Future Perfect State
that's calling us from just beyond the event horizon :) can you hear
it???!!!
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It pains me to say i do read the UP! and am somewhat informed,
but being a dumbed down mum-of-two TV watching miscreant poet ,
I need more pictures :-)
spacegirl, london.
> > shame on u girl. i never thought of the space part of spacegirl being
just... 'empty' :)
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receiving the UP! reminds me that there IS hope in the world
- I am not alone in my views. Rock on!
Jackie, Cornwall.
UP! Ladies, why does your gynaecologist leave the room while you get
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*BONG
HITS 4
JESUS
(SENT IN by JM with the following news story)
Smoking Pot Akin To Drinking Booze, Says Justice
The US Supreme Court last week ruled against an Alaska student who
displayed a "BONG HITS 4 JESUS" sign at an event outside his high
school. But, in his dissent on this free-speech case, Justice John Paul
Stevens wades into the War On Drugs (the one they lost when they
launched the War On Terror?) by comparing modern-day pot smokers with
"otherwise law abiding patrons of bootleggers and speakeasies during the
prohibition era".
Stevens, who turned 87 on April 20, described the war on drugs as
"reminiscent of the opinion that supported the nationwide ban on alcohol
consumption when I was a student." He wrote the dissent for the 4
justices who believed the student's free speech rights should be
protected: "The actions of literally millions of otherwise law-abiding
users of marijuana, and the majority of voters in each of the several
states that tolerate medicinal uses of the product, lead me to wonder
whether the fear of disapproval by those in the majority is silencing
opponents of the war on drugs... No one seriously maintains that drug
advocacy... can be prohibited because of its feared consequences....
While alcoholic beverages are now regarded as ordinary articles of
commerce, their use was then condemned with the same moral fervour that
now supports the war on drugs.".
Most debate over the efficacy of the war on drugs focuses on government
crackdowns on users of medical martijuana for whom the drug eases
chronic pain, he says. But in comparing pot smoking to social drinking,
he suggested that the drug could be legalised in all cases.
[send in examples pls :-]
UP! Is French kissing just called kissing in France? (Peter Kay)
*_contents_***
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screen 04 Dot Com Bubble 2.0 Coming Soon**
screen 06** Confessions of a Love & Cooperation Dissident** - PART 3
of *Hippy,**** The Last Stand Happening! ***
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screen 12 *2012 - **What The Maya Left Behind*
screen 14 Oscar, the Cat with the Purr of Death
screen 17 Beyond Mesopotamia - A Radical New View Of Human Civilisation
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Dot Com Bubble 2.0
Coming Soon
IT' DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN!
by John C. Dvorak
Everyone working in the media today who experienced the dot-com bubble
of 1999-2000 believes we're going through the exact same process now and
can expect the exact same results --- a bust. And since this moment in
time is only the beginning of the cycle, the best nuttiness has yet to
emerge. Nevertheless, a lot of nuttiness hasn't already happened.
If we look closely, the 1999 dot-com bubble was nothing new. We saw all
sorts of bubbles before that. There was the CD-ROM bubble. Remember
all the CD-ROM companies? Bill Gates's "Information at Your Fingertips"
was the watchword. Microsoft itself started a unique division called
Microsoft Home. The whole scene collapsed almost overnight.
Before the CD-ROM bubble, pad-based computing was all the rage. Every
company and a lot of start-ups were going to make this kind of
computer. It was a total bust. Before that we had the software wars,
when you could choose from dozens of word processors and spreadsheets.
And don't forget the IBM PC clone wars in there somewhere. These all
resulted in one sort of collapse or another.
Since each succeeding bubble has been worse than its predecessor, nobody
is actually able to spot the cycle, since it just looks like a
continuum. I can assure you that after this next collapse, nobody will
think of the dot-com bubble as anything other than a prelude.
Each of these bubbles had a distinctive theme. For the dot-com bubble,
it was e-commerce - it really should have been called the e-commerce
bubble. Everything was focused on how the Internet was going to destroy
all existing brick-and-mortar operations. We were told that you'd be
buying sandwiches over the Internet and having them delivered the next
day by FedEx. Everything was about "eyeballs" and finding ways to
attract customers, whether they bought anything or not. Every article
in every newspaper parroted the litany as to how you'd be out of
business in a year or two if you were not present on the Web in a big
way. Hmm.
Bubble 2.0
The current bubble, already called Bubble 2.0 to mock the Web 2.0
moniker, is harder to pin down insofar as a primary destructive theme is
concerned. A number of unique initiatives, however, are in play here.
Let's look at a few of the top ideas floating the new bubble.
Neo-social networking. Today everything from YouTube to the local
church has a social-networking angle. And this doesn't even consider
the actual social-networking sites, from MySpace to LinkedIn to Facebook
to even Second Life. This scene is totally out of control and will
contribute to the collapse for sure.
> > that explains why it's never attracted me despite almost a hundred
invites to be peoples' friends.
Video mania. With dozens and dozens of YouTube clones cropping up to
get on the "throw money away" bandwagon, you must sense that the
eventual shakeout in this space will have a negative impact.
User-generated content. This idea has been around since Usenet and just
keeps improving. It will make no contribution to the overall collapse
except for users reporting the collapse.
Mobile everything. Here is another concept that has been in play since
the mid-1990s. It cannot trigger a collapse since it will never fully
get off the ground, although the iPhone mania may be a bad sign of
something.
Ad-leveraged search. Most search engines will fail as a matter of
course. This segment of the industry is mundane. It would be affected
by a crash but not trigger one.
Widgets and toolbars. I cannot see the widget scene going crazy, and
the jury is still out on toolbars. But there is the potential for
nuttiness, I think. The problem here is that these things tend to be
dependent on the stability of operating systems and browsers. One bad
operating-system patch and suddenly nothing works.
You can come up with your own theories about the next collapse. All I
can tell you is that it's a sure thing.
UP! Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but
don´t point to their crotch when they ask where the bathroom is? (Peter Kay)
> > speak for yourself.
*Monsanto Goes GM-Free - in its Cafeteria*
**Staff at the UK headquarters of biotech giant Monsanto will no longer
be served genetically modified products in the company cafeteria,
including soy and corn. Granada Food Services, which manages the
canteen, is said to be concerned about health risks.
However, just so you know, Monsanto's PR department contends the action
was not the result of a boycott by their worried employees.
> > and they'll fire anyone who says different.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_6401.cfm****
UP! Triangular sandwiches taste better than square ones. (Peter Kay)
*Hippy*
*The Last Stand Happening!*
*an _ambient address_ by *Fraser Clark*.
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*you know, people today are always saying how nobody saw our present
Disaster coming. but anyone who's been reading this essay knows well
that the Hippies have been warning against it for decades. here's what
I wrote a decade and a half ago in Zippy Times.
*
*PART THREE
***
**
Confessions
of a
*Love & Cooperation Dissident
*
(Ibiza, 1993)
**
***Communism was **Capitalism's **OVERGROUND** **alternative**.
Now it's collapsed. And we must re-consider Hippyism,
which was always its **UNDERGROUND**** **alternative.
[underground = putting down roots nonviolently] ***
* /With the Western Competitive Culture seemingly triumphant,
has COOPERATION now become a dirty word like SOCIALISM...
/OR/
is it re-emerging as an evolutionary virus
which MUST dominate our global cultural body?
/**/
Indeed, with the rapid and global spread of Rave Culture,
is it already swarming in such abundance below the radar
/**/as the Underground /**/Alternative /**/colonises the common mind as
the new Religion?/*
*//*
*/ /*
**
*a **forever-growing & finally unstoppable minority**
*
*Ever since becoming an adult I've known in my bones, & softer places,
that the Competitive Culture I'd been born into was on a dangerously
deluded path which could only end in *Disaster*.*
*For /everyone/ - the People, /and/ the Privilegentsia! *
*And all my adult life** that System**'s elders & authorities, first my
mother, then teachers & churchmen, then every public or private
executive I've encountered and, more recently as I've begun to raise my
voice in public, the media, **have retorted:** *
*/"You can't possibly believe that all the fully qualified professionals
and experts, so obscenely well remunerated by our so wonderful, latest &
greatest Super Power, can have been wrong all this time, while an
isolated & not even"successful" individual such as yourself knew better
all the time?! /*
*/"Such arrogance approaches insanity!"/** *
*Yet, mark well, the other "Super Power" turns out to have been in/
exactly /such a state of affairs! My Russian dissident counterparts of
the last 25 years** ** were actually */the only sane ones around!//
/*And those tens of thousands of power-dressed, bedside-mannered
**bureaucrats/ /****and **busynessmen really /were/ purveyors /and/
self-deluded victims of a sick consensus view of Reality.
*
*Yes, it now appears /very possible indeed/ for an entire Society to be
led in a thoroughly unhealthy direction, and for a tiny but
forevergrowing minority to be dissident /and/ right.
*
***mirror images of the beast*
*Despite the OVERGROUND** **alternative model having collapsed and
everything having changed, we're like the jumping bugs which some
scientists placed in a bath with a sheet of glass laid over the top.
After a day of continuously crashing back down, unconscious, the glass
could be removed and virtually none of the bugs would jump out.*
/THE BARRIERS HAVE BEEN REMOVED, BUT THE MAJORITY HAVE NOT YET NOTICED
THERE'S A WAY OUT!!/* *
*For, until now, the blindfold preventing us from perceiving the
ghastly, divisive wastefulness of our competition-based system was that
it was always compared to the OVERGROUND alternative. Yet the brute
fact is that the mere half century deep Soviet rebellion into
Cooperation was merely the first mass uprising against our own
Competitive culture. It was the beginning of/ /the Final Over-throw of
the Competitive Party that's ruled for/ generations./ *
*The "odd" bugs did jump out and escape. And now, as the bath water
approaches global boiling point, so many will start "jumping out" that
soon they'll be taking over the Reality Studio itself. *
*And, just as most Russian dissidents were /not/ advocating Capitalism
as the alternative, so the vast majority of *Hippy Cooperation
Dissidents* in the West were /never /advocating State Communism (despite
the government media's attempts to paint it so). *
*Indeed I joined the Hippies out of a deep, clear conviction that both
Communism/ and /Capitalism were user-unfriendly - for /all/ their
citizens. I saw the "Hippy" then, as I do today, tweaked into a Zippy,
as the /true/ Alternative lifestyle and worldview to the present sick
consensus reality. *
*More, as the '70s wore on and the Hippy Renaissance was turned back on
most fronts, I became convinced we were /already/ living in the material
wilderness of psychopathic alienation to which such a competitive
culture /must/ lead - poisoned air, water, food, and private-public
relationships. Even then I sensed we'd look back on this period as /The
Culmination & Final Death Throes of the Dark Ages./ *
*The '80s, of course, were a further, probably fatal acceleration
towards this inevitable consequence. Both systems turn out to have
been mirror images of the Beast of whom the prophets warned. *
*/One down, one well on its way/**, that's my attitude now!*
UP! I was the kid next door´s imaginary friend. (Peter Kay)**
*An urgent call for anyone who attended the Human Be-In
at the polo fields in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, on****
January 14th 1967!***
A video documentary is presently being filmed that features interviews
with people who attended the Human Be-In.
The aim of the film is to give a background to this exceptional event
which heralded the 'Summer of Love' as it is now known.
Through the voices of people who were there on the day, I intend to
reveal what became of some of this blossoming generation. Through
individual stories we will get a picture of what impression these times
had on the young of the time and what has become of them 40 years on...
*You were a part of history then and a vital part of the being
here now.
This documentary is being produced by myself, Neville Powis from
England, a former international radio producer for Radio
Netherlands as well as BBC, turned independent video documentary
maker. I am presently based in northern Thailandand am working in
conjunction with the Beat artist, Michael Bowen, who was mostly
responsible for arranging the Human Be-In and will also feature in
this historic documentary.
If you were there on that definitive day in history, I want to
hear from you.
nevillepowis at rediffmail.com
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+66-(0)894296620
*UP! You know that look women get when they want sex? No? Me
neither. (Peter Kay)
*
San Francisco*
SUN Sept 2
*Summer of Love 40th Anniversary Day**
*
"Whereas, The Summer of Love in San Francisco is internationally
recognised as the birthplace of the 60's revolution that ignited a
spiritual awaking that swept the world..."
San Francisco Mayor, Gavin Newsom, has issued a proclamation declaring
Sunday, September 2, 2007, *Summer of Love 40th Anniversary Day* in San
Francisco. On that day, the 40th Anniversary Summer of Love FREE
Concert will take place in Golden Gate Park's Speedway Meadows between
10am - 6pm. The full proclamation including concert information can be
found at
www.2b1records.com/summeroflove40th
<http://www.2b1records.com/summeroflove40th>.
UP! Every bloke has, while taking a pee, flushed half way through and
then raced against the flush. (Peter Kay)
> > naw naw u race WITH the flush!
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*America Leads Way Into
New Low In Human Behaviour
**FIRST ARMED ROBOTS ON PATROL IN IRAQ
*
For the first time in the history of warfare, armed robots have been
deployed. 3 "special weapons observation remote reconnaissance direct
action system" (SWORDS - aren't those yanks good at this kinda shite?!)
robots have deployed to Iraq, armed with M249 machine guns.
**[Wired, August 2, 2007]
UP! At the end of every party there is always a girl crying. (Peter Kay)
*2012
What The Maya Left Behind
*
*Over 2,000 years ago the early Maya formulated a profound galactic
cosmology. They saw that the sun, on the winter solstice, was slowly
moving toward the heart of the galaxy. Naturally enough, with their
uncorrupted intelligence intact, they suspected that the world would go
through a transformation when the solar and the galactic planes
aligned. They devised their Long Count calendar to target when the
cosmic alignment would maximise, and that time is AD 2012. *
**
*We are lucky that the brilliant skywatchers who devised the 2012
calendar left carved monuments for us to decode, and that these have
survived the decay of centuries, so that we can know exactly what they
prophesied and believed about 2012. *
*Incredibly, at the early Maya site of Izapa in southern Mexico, the
galactic cosmology and a profound spiritual teaching are preserved.
Izapa speaks to us of the Galactic Alignment in 2012 as a transformative
nexus in time, a still-point turnabout, inviting us to reconnect with
our cosmic heart and eternal source. With the Divine Wisdom. But how
can that be achieved? What is the original, undiluted, prophecy for
2012, divined by those ancient mystics and stargazers who invented the
2012 calendar? *
*Izapa's carved monuments provide the answers.*
http://www.alignment2012.com/
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**Slim Chance of Tuning in to Alien TV
Marko Horvat, a computer scientist at the University of Zagreb, has
calculated the odds of detecting alien civilisations of different
lifespans from their radio signals.
If, for example, 10 civilisations, each with a lifespan of 250,000
years, live within radio reach of Earth, the probability that one of
them will be detected is about 9%, assuming near-perfect radio
telescopes scanning the sky constantly (not realistic).
If there are 10 alien civilisations with a much longer lifespan, the
chances of detection drop to almost zero. That's because they will
probably have developed better means of communication.
www <javascript:loadBrain('World Wide Web
(WWW)')>.arxiv.org/abs/0707.0011 <javascript:loadBrain('World Wide Web
(WWW)')>
[NewScientist.com]
> > which, of course, is another reason you shouldnt pay too much
attention to bonehead scientists like dawkins :)
UP! When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then I
realised that the Lord doesn´t work that way, so I stole one and asked
him to forgive me. (Peter Kay)
UP! is keeping me connected with and working for the whole.
Liz , Chepstow, UK xx
UP! You know that look women get when they want sex? No, me neither.
(Peter Kay)
Oscar, the Cat with the Purr of Death
Oscar makes his grand entrances just as life is about to leave.
A hop onto the bed, a fastidious lick of the paws, then a snuggle beside a nursing home patient with little time left. Oscar's purr, when keeping close company with the dying, is so intense it is almost a low rumble.
"He's a cat with an uncanny instinct for death," said David Dosa, assistant professor at the Brown University School of Medicine and a geriatric specialist. "He attends deaths. He's pretty insistent on it."
In the 2 years since Oscar was adopted into the dementia unit of the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Centre in Providence he has maintained close vigil over the deaths of more than 25 patients, nursing staff and doctors say.
Dr Dosa has had an essay on Oscar published yesterday in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Like any feline, Oscar gives a hefty portion of his day to sleep. He likes to doze on stacks of patient reports. Or on the desk at the nurses' station. Or in the linen closet.
When awake, however, the mixed-breed cat shows a solemn dedication to duty, making regular "inspection" rounds of the unit, sauntering in and out of patient rooms - as if checking on the condition of the occupants.
When death is near, Oscar nearly always appears at the last hour or so. Yet he shows no special interest in patients who are simply in poor shape, or even patients who may be dying but who still have a few days. Authorities in animal behaviour theorise that he might detect some subtle change in metabolism - felines are as acutely sensitive to smells as dogs - but that would not explain his interest.
In any event, when Oscar settles on a patient's bed, caregivers take it as a sign that family members should be summoned immediately.
"We've come to recognise him hopping on the bed as one indicator the end is very near," said Mary Miranda, charge nurse on the surprisingly cheery floor that is home to 41 patients in the final stages of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, strokes, and other mentally debilitating diseases. "Oscar's been consistently right."
Keeping pets has been a trend in nursing home care for several years. The Steere Centre, founded in 1874, has 120 residents, plus six cats, a slew of parakeets and a floppy-eared rabbit. Oscar's sole domain, however, is the locked dementia ward. He came to the unit as a kitten in July 2005, brought by a staff member to replace the floor's previous resident feline, Henry, who had died some months earlier.
"Medical people are skeptical at the start. But you wind up believing," Dr Teno said. "Oscar is a normal cat with an extra-normal sense for death. He is drawn to death."
Occasionally, families are spooked by a cat keeping death watch, and Oscar is shooed from the bed and locked from the room. He does not like this. "He kind of rubs aggressively against the door, paces back and forth, yowls in protest," Dr Teno said.
Other families are deeply appreciative of Oscar.
Jack McCullough lost his mother and his aunt at Steere. His mother died in November 2005; his aunt in March this year. In both cases, Oscar hopped onto the woman's bed near the final hour, cuddling close and purring.
"Oscar's presence gave a sense of completion and contentment," Mr McCullough said. "Both women loved pets."
>> PETS?! who wrote this article?!
He added: "Oscar brought a special serenity to the room. What's more peaceful than a purring cat? What sound more beautiful to fill one's ears when leaving this life?"
[The Boston Globe]
UP! Old ladies can eat more than you think. (Peter Kay)
Woodstock's Famous Farm For Sale
BETHEL, N.Y. - The famous farm near the alfalfa field that drew 400,000
people to the Woodstock Festival is up for sale.
Asking price: $8 million.
Roy Howard, the current owner, is packing it in after years of tangling with local officials over permits for reunion gatherings to mark the 1969, 3-day music festival that helped ignite a generation.
Up for sale is the 2,000-square-foot house that belonged to dairy farmer Max Yasgur, along with a larger farmhouse, a barn and 103 bucolic acres about 80 miles north of New York City.
Yasgur lent out the alfalfa field for the concert after the promoters were rejected by officials in the nearby town of Woodstock. 400,000 people packed the field Aug. 15-17. But the field itself isn't included in the sale. It's owned by cable magnate Alan Gerry, who turned it into the 4,800-seat Bethel Woods Center last summer.
Yasgur and his farm were celebrated in Joni Mitchell's song "Woodstock," popularised by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young with the line: "I'm going on down to Yasgur's farm / I'm going to join in a rock 'n' roll band."
UP! Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, ´I think I´ll squeeze these dangly things here and drink whatever comes out'? (Peter Kay)
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Iraq: Over 1 Million Killed Since U.S. Invasion
The number is shocking and sobering. It's at least 10 times greater
than most estimates cited in the US media, yet it is based on the only
scientifically valid study of violent Iraqi deaths caused by the
U.S.-led invasion of March 2003.
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
UP! Why, when someone tells you there are a billion stars in the
universe, you believe them, but if they tell you there's wet paint, you
have to touch it to make sure? (Peter Kay)
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wot's going on behind the scenes** *
**A couple of weeks ago I went to a talk entitled 'Creating Terror - a
lateral look at 9/11, 7/7 and the War on Terror' given by Nafeez
Mosaddeq Ahmed . (a recording can be found here.
<http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=23955>)
*Nafeez is an academic who has written a number of books on 9/11, 7/7
and the war of (sic) terror. His full profile can be found here
<http://www.blogger.com/profile/17633257396941902053>but, by way of
quickly establishing his credentials...
John Pilger says: "Nafeez Ahmed's understanding of the post 9/11 power
game, its lies, illusions and dangers, is no less than brilliant."
Gore Vidal says: "On the subject [of 9/11] the best, most balanced
report, thus far, is by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed."
Nafeez's talk though didn't focus on 9/11 or 7/7. As we know, there is
a real danger in getting bogged down in debating 9/11 and 7/7 details
(as important as they are) and missing the wood for the trees.
So Nafeez didn't talk specifically about 9/11 or 7/7. Rather he
presented the historical context of what's happening so we would be able
to understand what was "going on behind the scenes" so that we can see
that "it really is a phenomenon of creating terrorism."
In the Q&A session I thanked Nafeez for his comprehensive, scholarly and
insightful presentation and asked whether there was a summary that could
be easily read at one sitting.
He recommended his magnum opus on the subject of international terrorism
'The War on Truth' for a comprehensive analysis but pointed me to a
more brief analysis in a 38-page pdf entitled 'Subverting Terrorism' .
I heartily recommend this paper to fellow UP!ers.
Thanks for the UP! fraser.
Peace,
*Chris Vezey, London.
UP! I was bullied at school, called all kinds of different names. But
one day I turned to my bullies and said "Sticks and stones may break my
bones but names will never hurt me". It worked! From there on it was
sticks and stones all the way. (Peter Kay)
Beyond Mesopotamia
A Radical New View Of Human Civilisation
A radically expanded view of the origin of civilisation, extending far
beyond Mesopotamia, is reported in the 3 August issue of Science. A
growing body of evidence suggests that, in addition to Mesopotamia, many
civilised urban areas existed at the same time - about 5,000 years ago -
in an arc that extended east for thousands of kilometers across to the
areas of modern India and Pakistan.
Andrew Lawler, the writer, said: "While Mesopotamia is still the cradle
of civilisation in the sense that urban evolution began there, we now
know that the area between Mesopotamia and India spawned a host of
cities and cultures between 3000 B.C.E. and 2000 B.C.E.",
Evidence of shared trade, iconography and other culture from digs in
remote areas across this arc were presented last month at a meeting in
Ravenna, Italy of the International Association for the Study of Early
Civilizations in the Middle Asian Intercultural Space. The meeting was
the first time that many archaeologists from more than a dozen countries
gathered to discuss the fresh finds that point to this new view of
civilisation's start.
They shared findings from dozens of urban centers of approximately the
same age that existed between Mesopotamia and the Indus River valley in
modern day India and Pakistan. The researchers are just starting to
sketch out this new landscape, but it's becoming clear that these
centres traded goods and could have shared technology and architecture.
Recovered artifacts such as beads, shells, vessels, seals and game
boards show that a network linked these civilisations.
Researchers have also found hints, such as similar ceremonial platforms,
that these cultures interacted and even learned from one another. A new
excavation near Jiroft in southeastern Iran, for example, has unearthed
tablets with an unknown writing system. This controversial find
highlights the complexity of the cultures in an area long considered a
backwater.
These urban centres are away from the river valleys that archaeologists
have traditionally focused on. Archaeologists now have access to more
remote locations and are expanding their studies.
UP! Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting
it in a fruit salad. (Peter Kay)*all g o o d t h i n g s c o m **e t o a
n e n d*
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