🚀 go-pugleaf

Phil Ronzone (phil@netcom.com) wrote:
:   "Oh no, Mr. Ronzone, you are wrong! The Goomba tribe discovered
:    Penicillin, or the Running Skunks Tribe developed common
:    law, or the steppin' Hot'N-Tots invented double entry
:    book-keeping ..."

     Oh, no, Mr. Ronzone (sincker), the Arabs invented mathematics,
law, and writing, the Chinese invented chemistry, the Hebrews invented
monotheism, the Japanese had a thriving artistic, literary, and 
musical culture at a time when Europe was in the Dark Ages...
nothing as important as double-entry bookkeeping, however.
     If you want to consider a serious question instead of just
bashing non-SWEMs, try this one: what happened 500 or 600 years 
ago that suddenly caused Europe, which had been the slow learners
of the Eastern Hemisphere for over 1000 years, to leap forward in
exploration, science, finance, politics, and many other fields so
that within a couple of centuries they dominated the world?  And
what caused them to be so scornful of their victims that they not
only exterminated them left and right (an attribute not limited,
of course, to Europeans) but denied that the pre-existing cultures
had ever existed?

: As a comparision: In the last 10 years of Apartheid, the South African
: State kill over 300 people for political reasons.

: During that same time, the ANC killed over 5,000.

: Somemof the other African States killed more than 100,000 ....

     And during this very century Hitler (a DWEM) exterminated more
than 6 million people in death camps, and wars between Germany and
Russia exterminated probably 20 million.  Makes the ANC look 
positively charitable.  And by the way, which tribal ideology was
the ANC advocating during this time?  Oh, yes, Communism was
invented by the Zulus, wasn't it?