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Am 02.09.2010 08:47, schrieb david:

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> Hartmut Noack wrote:

>

>> Atrocities and genocide are no inventions of the modern times: in

>> reverse! In modern times most cultures have learned to name things

>> atrocities, that were known as "perfectly normal" or even "heroic

>> deeds" in ancient times.

>

> What Rome did to Carthage after conquering it would certainly be

> considered genocide by modern UN thought. Slaughter the population,

> enslave the few survivors, transport them away from their country.

> Demolish the city-state. Sow the soil with salt so it couldn't be used

> to supply food. Rome did not intend Carthage to ever rise again.

>

> And the Roman general who destroyed Carthage was rewarded very highly.

>

He cited Homer in greek on the smoking ruins and he was given the name

Africanus to honor him.

But the romans usually avoided genocide. They where out to conquer

peoples to make them pay taxes.
There are many other candidates though, from the Saxons of the 4th

century to the Mongol storm of the 12th to the Nazis here in Germany in

the beginning of the 20ths century.

All *before* mind-crushing popmusic with "subliminal messages" emerged

to drive everyone "mad with sex and violence".
NO! Rock/pop music with all its wildness, its unpredictability and its

absence of formal written rules is a cultural sign for more humanity,

more freedom and more self-awareness.
best regs
HZN

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