【Article/Observer Network Columnist Zi Si】
As mentioned in the previous article, the "Empire of Lies" could not have appeared in any ancient "Axis people", but it did not conflict with the modernity movement that took place in northwestern Europe around 1000 AD and the later "Faustian" culture, and it complemented each other. In short, the "Empire of Lies" is a specialty of Western civilization.
"Faustian" culture, which at the beginning of its rise belonged only to Western civilization, because it was a culture that gave up the spiritual life and gave up moral code in exchange for the pursuit of worldly power and the satisfaction of bodily desires, and this was not a new type of culture, which contained bad spiritual orientations such as indulgence and greed, mercenary interest, unscrupulous means, and disregard for others, which were precisely what the "Axis peoples" overcame through their respective "Axis Ages". Western civilization did not have its own "Axis Age", and as the antithesis and destroyer of the "Axis Nation", it would inherit the barbaric ancient culture.
However, with the strong rise of Western civilization since modern times, as this civilization has become the dominant civilization in the world with its advantages in "organized violence" and scientific and technological achievements, this ancient culture has reappeared under the decoration of modern concepts such as liberalism, capitalism, and scientism.
Liberalism, capitalism, and scientism are considered good, progressive, and representative of the future, and thus tacitly accepted as a two-sided byproduct of their unity and moral degeneration, which is the most important source of the unchallenged "empire of lies" in the contemporary world.
"Battle of Little BigHorn" (infographic)
Looking back at history, the whole story is roughly like this: the first pioneers of the "Faustian" peoples of the West to go to the world were the Spaniards and Portuguese who rushed out of the Iberian Peninsula in the 15th and 16th centuries, and the first to be affected by these barbaric peoples were the indigenous societies of Africa and the Americas. People today look back at this history and realize that this is really a huge absurdity in human history, and that for geographical reasons alone, it is precisely those original civilizations that are the least capable of resisting the "Faustian" culture, and unfortunately encounter the most ferocious part of the "Faustian" culture.
The slave trade in Africa lasted for centuries, and countless stories of blood and tears still torment the human conscience to this day. The "Black Lives" movement that swept the world after 2020 has once again unveiled this history, and people are still shocked by the darkness and bloodshed in it.
In fact, there is much more to it, the genocide and civilization destruction of the former Aztec and Inca Empires on the American continent are even darker and bloodier than the stories of black slaves in Africa, but because even the spokesmen are not left, today's accusations and reckoning cannot be carried out.
According to contemporary academic views, before the arrival of the Spanish invaders, the Aztec Empire and the Inca Empire represented the Yucatan civilization and the Andean civilization, respectively. Both civilizations, including the Mayan civilization, which had begun to decline before that, belonged to the original human civilization that had occurred independently on the American continent.
In the case of the Yucatan civilization, before it was destroyed by Cortis's army, its level of civilization had independently reached the level of no less than that of the native civilizations of the "Axis Age" of Eurasia. According to Spengler, the Spaniards who invaded the Aztecs were at least 800 years behind the former in terms of civilization, "at that time the West was at a level that the Maya had already crossed around 700 AD; the era of being able to maturely comprehend the policies of the Mayapan Alliance was, if nothing else, the time of Frederick the Great; and what the Aztecs of 1500 AD were creating, for us, were in the distant future." (Spengler, 1918).
According to historical records, when the Spaniards first saw the great city of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, they were completely stunned. Huge buildings filled with ornate decorations, a complex system of canals, neat and flat sidewalks, and even arched overpasses were all they had never seen before. In addition, there was the beautiful music, dance, sculpture and other arts, the beautiful clothing and accessories of aristocratic men and women, and the various economic and political ideas needed to maintain such a vast empire. Today's scholars also believe that there are only three script systems developed completely independently by human society, namely the ancient Mesopotamian alphabet in the eastern Mediterranean, the Chinese hieroglyphs in East Asia, and the Mayan morphology in the Yucatan Peninsula.
Oracle bones found at the site of Yin Ruins in Anyang. Xinhua News Agency
The vast empire had a population of more than 15 million people at the time, and Cortis often led a team of only a few hundred people, and there was no hope of victory, let alone the complete destruction of the entire civilization. Of one of these battles, the Spaniards described it this way: "Cannons, muskets, and bows and arrows were useless, and hand-to-hand combat was even more useless, and even though we had to kill thirty or forty men each time we charged, they continued to fight in the same tight formation and with more energy than they had at the beginning." (Reprinted from Buddy Levy, 2008) It is not difficult to imagine that if this had been the case in every battle, the Spaniards would have been completely annihilated before they could reach the capital.
But that's how the unthinkable happened, the Spaniards relied on their superiority in military technology such as iron, gunpowder, and horses, and through two years of conquest, they finally turned what they saw as the "most beautiful city in the world" into ruins and led to the destruction of the entire empire. In the memories of the surviving Aztecs, "the blood of the warriors flowed like water and gathered into pools." The pool enlarged, and the stench of blood and internal organs filled the air. The Spaniards ran into the houses of the community and killed those who were in hiding. They ran everywhere and searched everywhere; they invaded every room and hunted. (ibid.)
The records of this history were written by the victors, the Spaniards, and the destruction of civilization was so complete that the few remaining Aztec manuscripts could no longer be read, so that future generations would never know what the truth of the events was. But even in the Spaniards' own accounts, the following basic facts can be confirmed: 1) the Spaniards were treated with courtesy, respect, and food for a long time after landing; 2) despite the subsequent plundering, looting, and massacres, the two sides signed several peace agreements; 3) in large-scale battles, the Aztec warriors showed no less heroic deeds than the Spaniards; 4) the wealth of the Empire was enormous, but scattered everywhere, and the treasury was almost unattended. The Spaniards easily got it. These points alone lead to the conclusion that the Aztecs as a whole were nobler, more benevolent, more civilized than the Spaniards, and that they valued honesty and friendship more than material wealth.
But these noble qualities, in the eyes of the Spaniards, have become the fatal weakness, because the Spaniards have an invincible weapon in terms of quality - endless greed.
The Spaniards set foot on this land for gold and silver treasures, as Cortis famously said, "My companions and I suffer from a heart condition that only gold can cure." For this purpose, they can use whatever means they may use, even if it is a genocide of a foreign race. In fact, whatever the specific course of this expedition that took place in the 1520s, the end result was that the Spaniards robbed the Aztec Empire of all its gold and silver treasures at the cost of its complete destruction.
A missionary witnessed the misery of the Aztecs: "They died in piles, like bed bugs. In many places, the people in a house are dead, and because they can't bury a large number of the dead, they tear down the house so that their house becomes their grave. The Spaniards, on the other hand, "like pigs", rummaged through the piles of dead bodies for gold and jewelry. (Ibid.)
Regrettably, no one in the Axis Peoples had the opportunity to witness one of the darkest scenes in human history: in many parts of the American continent, the world's most beautiful cities were razed, highly developed native civilizations were destroyed, and countless civilizations died of mass slaughter, epidemics, and extreme poverty, all only to satisfy the greed of a handful of barbarians. Against the backdrop of burning cities and mountains of corpses, the spanish revelry of ugly indulgence and the ensuing fierce infighting over the uneven distribution of the spoils would leave anyone with a slight conscience intolerant.
However, this is the typical manifestation of the "Faustian" nation, who do not care about the moral criticism of outsiders, nor do they care about their image before outsiders, they only need to get the wealth in their minds, as long as they satisfy the greed in their hearts. The great proto-civilizations of the Americas have told the whole world this basic fact with their own demise: this is by no means a universal phenomenon among human beings, but only represents one type of human being, which we ourselves prove; and once this type becomes the mainstream, it is a disaster for the whole world, and we ourselves are the proof.
The destruction of the American civilization by the Spaniards was the first great drama of the new Western civilization after it entered the center stage of world history, and it was also one of the largest criminal activities in the history of mankind, not only a great demonstration of the evil deeds of the beasts without compassion, shame, respect, and the heart of right and wrong, but also once again opened the process of reverse conquest of the higher civilizations by the lower civilizations that have been repeated many times in human history - to this day.
It was thanks to gold and silver from the Americas and slaves from Africa that the West finally had enough capital to buy a "third-class ticket" for the Asian economic train, and had enough strength to "climb on the shoulders of asians" (Gund Frank, 1998) and began to play its new role in world history as a new civilization.
"Silver Capital" book shadow
But since the historical starting point of the whole thing is a series of the deepest evils, and the cornerstone of the entire Western edifice of wealth is the layers of bones of the same kind on other continents, this means that the new civilization actually begins its new history with "original sin". This led to its inability to face its past from the beginning, and the function of the "Empire of Lies" once again became indispensable.
As the British, Dutch, and French gradually became the mainstream of Western civilization by defeating the Spaniards and Portuguese, the emerging upstarts refused to bear the "original sin" for their predecessors. Although they were still spending the bloody silver, they began to concoct all kinds of statements that were cut off from that period of history, such as denying that the early evils of the Spaniards and Portuguese had nothing to do with them and were completely unknown to them, and describing Notorious figures such as Cortis and Pizarro, together with their accomplices, as the private acts of a handful of bandits and had nothing to do with Western society as a whole... Wait a minute. It really doesn't make sense to insist that those civilizations in the Americas are inferior civilizations, murderers and cannibals.
On the one hand, forging a glorious "classical era" for Western civilization, and on the other hand erasing a dark and terrifying "original sin" for Western civilization, these are all "political tasks" that the Western "lie empire" has to complete. If these tasks are not completed or are not accomplished well, the moral and cultural image of the Western Group in the world will be destroyed, and its leadership position will lose its fundamental support.
Therefore, the "Empire of Lies" itself cannot turn back, and can only go to the black in one way. Turning back means facing up to its "original sin," its barbaric origins without the "Axial Age," and all the big lies it has told over the past 500 years.
Therefore, the "empire of lies" can only be overthrown together through the great unity of the peoples of the world. (To be continued)
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