History of Savagery

I am professor Bijan Moeinian, Docteur es Sciences Economiques form Sorbonne. One of my major philosophical questions has always been: Why the 1st killer (Cain) instituted savagery among us by killing his own brother (Able)? If in the past we were witnessing savagery in local level, now in account of communication revolution. we constantly witness it in global level. people may snap and kill each other loosing their sanity instantly. But, how can governments mass killing of people be rationalized? How can a Muslim pilot of Saudi Arabia justify dropping bombs over innocent women and children in Yemen? How can an American cop justify shooting a man on his back? How can soldiers of an army shoot and kill their own people who are peacefully protesting against injustice? I hope the publication of this work lead to a general consciousness among human beings and passage of a series of laws prohibiting at least regular "security's" forces of killing their own people.

Perhaps bringing to our attention the magnitude of our savagery lead to consciousness about the issue. This is why the entire humanity is invited to search in their memories and pen down here the savageries that have haunted them. So, everyone is invited to do so by emailing a historical (or even fictional) savagery committed by us; the human beings

Obviously, I have been touched about the subject by many articles and books during my life time: Some of them I have even forgotten! Among the ones that I remember is Carl Sagan's work entitled: "Pale Blue Dot" Carl encouraged NASA to make the Gemini II interstellar probe to look back and send us a picture of our planet when leaving the solar system: The result was a pale blue dot in the vastness of space. He then said:

"There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known....Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

According to the dictionaries. the word "Civilization" means "The art of living in the city". But some animals, like ants and honey bees (who do not have history), also live in their own built cities! Civilization, therefor, should mean "The historical evolution of the art of living in a city/ community" Unlike popular belief that civilized people are nice and human, the more civilized people commit more atrocities as explained in "The Story of Civilization" of Will and Ariel Durat. It is the most civilized country in the world that has not hesitated to push a button and vaporize hundreds of thousands of people in a second!!! It was the most advanced, law obedient, people of Europe who engaged in mass killing of millions of people in first and second world war. The savageries of s Khan, Atila, etc., may be justified by their savage nature; but, how can one justify the complete annihilation of native Indians in North America? What about the atrocities of Spanish and Portugese in South America. In Peru the entire population of the nation was lifetime imprisoned in caves and tunnels to extract silver. It is calculated that the remaining bones of this labor force in silver mines put together makes a bridge from Peru to Portugal!!

We, the people, cover our shames of our ancestors' savagery by glorifying them!!! But what about what we do today and cover the shame of our actions about the victims by introducing meaningless words such as "Terrorism" and accuses them of?