Nothing to Kill or Die For.

The Danes held a rally after the Copenhagen shooting and they all sang Lennon's "Imagine." Which simply drives me to rant. Pardon me for a moment:

Photo from the The Telegraph

Imagine if we were all brainless, unable to see the difference between good or bad, right or wrong... That's what that song is saying. This philosophy is actually the MAJOR problem with the leadership in the west. It goes hand in hand with being unable to call the terrorists what they are; with equating current terrorism with the crusades; why muslims are raised up as victims who need jobs; while beheaded Christians are 'random citizens.' This ideology must praise evil and condemn good until there are no differences (and no religion too...), because that will end the fighting, somehow.

That philosophy scares me.

Imagine all you want. That's nice. Really, it is.

But when it comes to actions and policy in this cruel world one must not be blinded. This is the philosophy of 'we must be thoughtlessly indiscriminate, because the opposite - discrimination (even thoughtful discrimination) - is bad.' So lets do away with thought.

Yet, the real world is still the real world, no matter what one wants to believe -- as Mr. Lennon found out, unfortunately (may he RIP).

I LOVE ARCHAEOLOGY!

I'd love to volunteer for a dig, if I knew where to start.

You might find this study of Central California uncomfortable. We all seem to have some emotional need to think of a time where people were peaceful, loving, idyllic. "But archaeologists have an obligation to report what the record reveals" - - which is, unfortunately, people are people.

“Many people still seem to think that prehistoric California was a violence-free paradise, but the archaeological record shows clearly that that was not the case... Taken together... their data portray periodic bouts of inflamed violence among Central California’s ancient indigenous groups"

"[V]iolence was always present."