THEE NEW DARK AGE IS ALREADY UPON US Without true EVOLUTION of MIND and BODY our species is doomed!

For a long time we have been saying that our species is trapped in death loops. We

wage war thousands of y-eras after it became obvious that suffering, tragedy and

destruction were terrible results. Only a few people in POWER with violence as a

means of control EVER get any benefit. More power, which means more friction with

other, similar creatures addicted to control for its own sake. Reading up on the crusades

to try and get a perspective on what moslem fundamentalists are talking about we

discovered that it was Richard the LionHeart who FIRST slaughtered all the moslem

inhabitants of Jerusalem and other arab cities in the "Holy Land". We see that it was

crusaders who tortured and humiliated moslems in the name of Christ, and with the

blessing of the Vatican. Just as the "pioneers" taught the native americans how to scalp

and torture, so the crusaders too. Always in the name of Christ. Always secretly to

justify political ends and material greed. It becomes readily apparent that in an uncanny

exactness, the RHETORIC and JUSTIFICATIONS we hear from corrupt politicians

today to excuse their crimes against humanity in the far east are IDENTICAL and

equally dishonest. The Pope in the beginning of the crusades needed to focus the

attention of rampaging Knights outside Europe where they had turned into gangsters.

He also wanted authority by ownership of symbolic places and ikons. As above so

below...corruption in high places leads to corruption of idealistic beliefs. The common

people went in their thousands to die pointlessly for a dishonest war, solving problems

of population control and the reduction of supplies of essential resources. So, sadly,

NOTHING has changed. The lies are identical. The reasoning is as bogus. The actuality

is as horrific. No wonder the response of those who suffer is a cry of unjust oppression.

Well it seems that our feeling that the polarisation of modern politics, combined with

new plagues, more fundamentalism, violence and cruelty is a potential beginning of a

new DARK AGES is being confirmed.

From the ANGRY LOVE desk of TOPI 2006. Please Read On.

The Middle Ages are back!

['The Last Judgment' by Hieronymous Bosch, who was not so impressed

by his fellow people]

Torture is legal, science is heresy, magic is studied in secrecy, leaders rely on religious

fanaticism, poverty sweeps the land as murderous despots hoard wealth behind walls,

mysterious plagues terrify the people, inquisitors hunt dissidents, and crusades against

Arabs are used to distract the masses from revolt.

That describes Europe's grim Middle Ages, but medieval scholar Eric

Jager says it also describes the United States in 2006, in an era

many Americans consider to be a glorious information age of technological

wonders.

"The word modern was actually coined by medieval people to distinguish themselves

from the ancients," Jager writes in the Los Angeles Times.

Or, as one of Jager's history students said, "Medieval people were

so ignorant, they had no idea they were living in the Middle Ages."

During those long dark centuries between the Roman Empire's decline

and the Renaissance, corrupt and amoral popes ruled Europeans with lies and terror.

Kings were notoriously and proudly stupid.

Parish priests were whoremongers and crooks. Scientists and magicians -- they were

one and the same -- practiced their arts hidden from the Christian mobs and sadistic

Inquisitors.

To avoid revolt, popes and kings sent Europe's healthy young men and

even children off to faraway Arab lands to plunder or die trying.

Yet it wasn't until the Renaissance era that historians realized just how pathetic things

had become during the Dark Ages.

"The Renaissance stole the label of modernity for itself and invented a prior 'middle age'

when classical civilization lay dormant, awaiting a glorious rebirth," Jager says. "The

Enlightenment made the 'barbaric' and 'superstitious' Middle Ages seem even more

obsolete."

While ignorance, poverty and fear were all most people knew in the Middle Ages,

technological progress raced onward.

The inventions and advances of medieval Europe -- Gutenberg's printing press, banking,

navigation, wheelbarrows, mirrors, magnets, rudders, soap, shoes and stirrups and

harnesses for horses, eyeglasses, windmills, spinning wheels, and the adoption of

foreign technologies such as Arabic math and astronomy and Chinese gunpowder --

made our "modern era" possible.

But the gadgets themselves couldn't make medieval Europeans any less

stupid or savage. That wouldn't begin to happen until the late 13th

century in Florence, where the Italian Renaissance began, and up to

two centuries later in the most barbaric parts of northern Europe.

Five centuries later, Europe would again plunge into darkness as the

German masses used the latest and greatest technology to murder millions of people and

destroy much of what had been built.

"Like our gadgets, we ourselves are only temporarily modern, and that label will be

taken from us very soon," Jager writes.

"What sort of mirror will later generations find in us? The people

of the future, looking back on our violent and benighted era, may decide

to call us 'medieval,' so I suggest we just go ahead and accept that the New Middle Ages

have begun."