Re: [Marxism] How Rome's endless "war on terror" ended up -- an ahistorical thought for today

[Shane Mage <shmage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 7, 2009, at 1:21 PM, Tom Cod wrote:
> Yeah but why are Asians or Near Easterners invading Europe always  
> described as barbarians and a "horde" while when Europeans like  
> Alexander the Great do the same to Asia they're not described as a  
> "European horde"?


"...But when the three-brained beings there, who arose and existed on  
the neighboring continent, now called Europe, then began taking part  
in the Asiatic wars, and when 'hordes' with the arch-vainglorious  
Greek called 'Alexander of Macedonia' at their head, were dispatched  
thence and passed almost everywhere over the continent  of Asia, they  
made, as it is said, a 'clean sweep' from the surface of that ill- 
fated planet of everything that had been established and had still  
been preserved..."
(G. I. Gurdjieff, "All and Everything: Beelzebub's Tales to His  
Grandson" [1927-29] p.404 [ch. XXVIII- "The Chief Culprit in the  
Destruction of All the Very Saintly Labors of Ashiata Shiemash"]

Shane Mage

> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos

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