RE: Weighting the Cherries.
April 24, 2018 at 9:10 am
(This post was last modified: April 24, 2018 at 9:28 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(April 24, 2018 at 9:08 am)ignoramus Wrote: So the stories of the bible are about racism and the art of war?
How would you describe it in an accurate practical sense?
Some of them are, yeah. The stories are an expression of the culture of the people who wrote them, and divine ethnocentricity was part of their culture. Culture requires a vehicle of propagation and maintenance. These exhortations (literal and metaphoric) provide that.
-it's also important to remember that the use of double entendre increases the value of a story as a cultural vehicle. That's not a bug, it's a feature. Packing as much cultural information (including what practical information is in their culture) as possible in the most efficient narrative space is an indicator of a skilled piece of communication.
In addition to the racial undertones made explicit elsewhere, monoculture..not mixing seed, is still a best practice for hilly smallholdings of the type being operated then. Yoking animals of unequal stature does interfere with the operation of the plow. Relying upon cultural or ideological enemies for goods and services when a suitable in-group material is present is a poor strategy for the independence which they were attempting to exert from what amounted to a bunch of lowland invaders. The language of that content is written throughout the entirety of the ot (and rehashed for magic man in the nt). We continue to use those expressions today not realizing that the underlaying language expresses a fundamental truth about that moment in time and the culture that relayed that experience as a narrative.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
