Ancestral Healing 1
Ancestral Healing
I have just watched Boris Johnson’s programme on The Dream of Rome,which makes some interesting points. Nonetheless, I was surprised that he repeated ALL of the Roman racism against the Celts! Again, we hear that we are dirty and hairy and uncivilized and Barbarian and unwashed (repeated several times) and unlettered and without benefit to the world and best off massacred and destroyed and sold into slavery etc. I am disappointed though. Wouldn’t you be?
Boris would say that he is politically correct, I assume. He wants to be elected, doesn’t he? He would say that he agrees with a multicultural model where everybody is respected, wouldn’t he? I actually quite like Boris Johnson because he speaks his mind and he is radical and original, but to see someone like him misunderstand the issues, well he is not a healer and he is not a psychologist, is he? Poor man is just a politician and like all politicians, he cannot understand why his nice dreams for political unity and economic rationalization don’t work.
Boris was disappointed that France put up a statue to Vercingetorix, and that Germany put up a statue to Arminius and that Britain put a statue of Boudicca opposite the Houses of Parliament. He says this is nationalist, obviously disgusting. But look at it another way Boris. These ancestors died defending us and they were the last people who actually loved us! Think about it, please!
Ever since Rome conquered us we have been subject to the most vicious racism and character assassination. It is still continuing today. This is a very deep wound and until it is healed, we will not play into the game of European integration, especially as Europe is our ancestral home and we made it before Rome built the first hut on the Palatine Hill.
I am sorry that you believe that peoples without writing are Barbarians, with all the implicit racism that implies. Do you think the same about the American Indians, about the Australian Aboriginals? This is typical Imperial prejudice, the same prejudice that has led to the near extinction of the Bushmen in Africa, who carry the traditions of the stone age through to the modern world with all the benefits that may yet still accrue to us, if we can learn it before we kill the last one!
Africa itself has suffered terribly because they left us no writing, so they are ignorant too? This same prejudice is leading to the eradication of the Rainforest peoples with all their knowledge from before time out of mind. How stupid of them not to write it down for us. Or is it the simple fact that we are too stupid to understand the benefit of cultures who do not write things down because we are so infatuated with the few civilisations that do?
How do you think you can unite people into this dangerous equation? Why do you think nationalism rears its head? Can you go through your ancestral line and exterminate the ancestors you don’t fancy? Can you really cherry pick your way through all the ancestors who created you? Do you think this will lead to your psychological health in the 21st century? Do you think this is politically correct? Is it going to work? Can you create a truly healthy multicultural modern European Union where only some of us have acceptable ancestors?
You think laterally. Of course with the current populations, everyone must be equally valued and made welcome. We are citizens of the World, all of us. But think historically too. If it is not acceptable to racially insult current populations, then it is not acceptable to insult people’s ancestors.
This is not politically correct, is it? You cannot pick the biggest bully boys in history and then try and get everyone to model themselves on people who exterminated their ancestors.
Rome was magnificent, but it also created a lot of the ills of modern society, not least the exclusion of any part of society who didn’t measure up to their idea of civilization, a prejudice you are still repeating today.
This same prejudice, tracked back though history, leaves a bloody trail we are still trying to heal today. Until you realise this and help us to heal it, your little dreams of Europe are doomed.
