to my reading are the most unique and both have religion at or near the center.

Had the Islamic Arabs of North East Africa not engaged in their campaign the now "middle or near east" would not have the infrastructure that aided Europe in it's rise and subsequent further destroying of the cultures within the larger continent

>>is something those other cultures have not seemed to match
>>with whatever violent campaigns they undertook
>>
>
>Tell that to a group of villagers watching the Mongols roll
>up

Yeah I hear that. Hindsight is not our friend

>>also what I was getting at is do we blame "humanity" for
>it's
>>violence or do we blame those who lead it?
>
>Well let's get mad philosophical.. humanity is the
>"consensus"... many times we don't know HOW we got to the
>consensus... like there is no one to "blame" for languages
>right? the consensus created them.
>
>There wasn't 1 dude who said yo... here is Spanish bestowed
>unto you.
>
>I think that violence has gone down as we march forward
>incorporating more and more people into the whole. The
>consensus deems it immoral and "unfit" to the survival of the
>whole so it is looked at negatively.

That is an interesting view. I wonder. At the same time people can be led into things they normally wouldn't engage in if they can be successfully manipulated


>The problem (that we are talking about re: the hood) happens
>in the margins where groups are left out of said consensus.
>So imo the blame falls directly on the powers that be that can
>change this specific situation (government, the state etc..)

Yeah totally agress