In this time of multiple deepening crises, it becomes a priority to not only offer accurate analysis of the situation but to take responsibility for offering clear and practical solutions.
There are many who may offer analysis and follow it with a rousing call to action. But an absence of concrete proposals leads us to rightfully ask the question – beyond analysis, what are you proposing that we should actually do?
Word of an Other Nature is about this System we all now live in, and have lived in for the last two and a half thousand years. And it is subsequently about the vaster entirety of the System that we all used to live in. This previous arrangement has been around for upwards of fifty thousand years.
The echoes of this previous System remain with us right through to the present day. It is still here waiting at any time to reclaim its ascendancy which it held for many, many millennia before this altogether more “recent” episode.
The more recent episode spans the last 2,600 years. I refer to it as the tri-millennial era. The timescale that I ask you to consider is challenging but I believe we need to look very, very deeply into our history to resolve our situation.
This publication is laid out as two separate books. Book One is about the recent episode, the tri-millennial era, dating back to the emergence of Imperialism when Solon in Athens and Servius Tullius in Rome created the first class systems in the sixth century B.C. overthrowing piece by piece the previous system. The disenfranchisement of the many for the ever more corruptive enrichment of the few reaches right through history to the present day and is at the root of our inability to reverse our journey to self-destruction.
The modern inheritors of this tradition are the United States of America. I make available the record to satisfy the claim that the U.S. are still pursuing the same objective (capital) and using the same tactics (foreign client dictators) as the Romans, and therefore that this tri-millennial period may be examined as one era. Only in the light of this does it become compelling to look at the nature of mind and the existence of people before it. When the priorities were not as they are now.
In this tri-millennial supremacy of capital, this more recent 70 year episode of White American global pre-eminence since World War 2 is traced from the early European invasions of the Americas through to United States expansions into Central America, the Caribbean, South America and the Pacific rim of Indo-China up to today. It aims to reveal that the same nature and spirit of Ancient Rome now expresses itself in new refinements of exactly the same approach.
The last two and a half thousand years have shown no progress in terms of values or the alleviation of wealth inequality. Quite the reverse. We spin on the same wheel as we have done since the Romans used their client dictator Herod to put down a popular revolutionary called Jesus.
Book One examines the period in order to establish the commonly recurring events and thus identify the pattern of behaviour. Forewarned is forearmed – once we understand from the pattern what is going to happen next, then we can stop it before it happens. Otherwise, we are always reacting to events and never ahead of them.
The above creates an advantage in itself. But if we are to resolve our crises then we need to go further.
Book Two is about the other pre-eminent nature and spirit. It is about a period of time stretching right back to the first language and family structures and forward right into the present. This is a 50,000 year period of missing history where sentient beings have now become remembered as little more talented than wild animals. This is in spite of the fact that these peoples have been speaking, organising and surviving back over a huge time-scale that belittles the achievements of “civilisation” as we like to call the period since “ancient” Rome. But “ancient” as currently defined means only two and a half thousand years or less than 150 generations.
The different strands of the detective sciences are starting to put together an unassailable truth – that we knew how to live before this period and we have forgotten.
The dividing line between the two eras is not language. Nor is it religion, government, family life, architecture, agriculture or manufacture. Both eras had all of these. Because both eras had words for these. Both eras had the ability to sustain humanity. None of the above, the great landmarks of human invention, differentiate between the two eras under examination. The dividing line is the final and decisive invention, property.
The idea of owning and controlling land and nature’s resources to the exclusion of others with more obvious claims to it is the nightmare that we have been living for what may seem to be a long time, but which is only one hundred and fifty brief generations – a blip in geological time, a brief neurotic headache that is set to clear at any stage and allow us to re-emerge from the darkness.
We talk always of freedom and justice. Maybe some believe that we will thus win them anyway even as we exist in our current form. But let us rediscover old tools that will assist us in this purpose.
These are not new ideas that I present that may be challenged as merely ideas without records of achievement. These are 50,000 year old ideas which have been tested and that worked over huge periods of time, or we wouldn’t be here. It worked for people everywhere, and in the near complete absence of our current system.
We need not invent new systems that inbred arrogance and apathy urge us to condemn and dismiss. We need only remember the previous, huge, hidden, re-emerging alternative outlined in the second part of this book. An outline upon which flesh may gather so long as they don’t shut down the media.
If you should fail in the roles that are ascribed to you throughout your life as a youth, an adult, a parent and a producer, read this and understand how that role failed you. Imperfect structures based on false priorities yield tragic consequences. They allow only a pale imitation of life to be lived.
This book unapologetically sings the praises and the details of better systems of life and work, of people as they were before property. Not perfect, but better. Better for two reasons. These alternative systems were prioritised around people, not private land and property, so people did better from them. And secondly because these systems sustained us for many millennia upwards of 50,000 years while the current system has brought us and the Planet to our knees in less than 3,000 years.
This huge expanse of human experience from 3,000 years ago and stretching back into antiquity is the hidden history of humanity that existed in the time when we are told we were had nothing better to do than bash each other with clubs. But the evidence arrives from all directions to challenge this denial of our early history – a history that has been systematically destroyed and concealed for very clear reasons as will be explained.
This account is therefore the tale before official time since this extremely long period of time is not yet acknowledged as existing with regard to deep ancestral intelligence, organisation and peaceful, creative humanity.
The lie about just how long we humans have been sentient and intelligent is being exposed.
The readers of this book may have felt and understood somewhere within them that there has to be (and must have been) an alternative. But without evidence of what exactly the problem is and the information on how better systems were, the feeling can only remain a feeling, nothing more.
This book seeks to provide evidence of the current problem together with the information on that better past that we used to live and enjoy together. Equality is not something that our modern civilisation may finally struggle to invent. Equality is something we used to possess because only justice was able to secure sustained progression through the many millennia. “Decolonising the Mind” as it has been expressed by one radical educationalist, is all about being able to shake off the racist hypnosis and actually see an aborigine as just as capable of intelligence as a white Western supremacist – but without the high tech… but with the sustainable approach. Only then can it truly be appreciated that we achieved “civilisation” in terms of language and government upwards of 50 millennia ago. Upwards of two and a half thousand generations ago. How easily may the deepest past be destroyed, disguised and lost but how easily may it re-emerge in an opened mind and be seen in the evidence that still lives all around us.
I aim to re-envision this history and transform the distantly felt half-memories via evidence into a conviction that can be argued and never denied again. There is an alternative. There is an other nature. There is something other that is native to us. We may alter native.