Martin wrote:
>My sense of history is that the power in primitive clans was divided between the warriors/hunters and the medicine/herbalist/wiseone. This division evolved into etc. etc.
I don't know what this is but it ain't history. More like a sim game.
>Just another conspiracy theory.
You mean what you wrote or what Ginzburg is talking about? If Ginzburg, then no, it's not just another conspiracy theory. 9/11 truthers, Oswald didn't act alone, and no one stepped foot on the moon are just another conspiracy theory. What Ginzburg is talking about happened in a particular time and place where it was possible for a small number of people to pull off a coordinated campaign that would have a big impact in the real world. We no longer live in that time, just as we no longer live in a time where we can know everything, like Athanasius Kircher did. History is sussing out the particulars.
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