Колониализм и ориентализм в их истинной природе и измерениях
In today's world, most of the people
have a very simplistic, superficial or even naïve idea about what colonialism
and orientalism have been. Responding to an African American friend, I realized
that I had to elucidate his understanding of the two terms and the undertakings
that they describe and to dissociate the two enormous projects from one
another, as they have been conceived by the same people but for different
reasons and they have therefore pursued divergent trajectories. The many
distinct dimensions that Colonialism has had and the wide array of notions,
purposes and directions that Orientalism can have are crucial matters that
determine human life worldwide - either people understand it or not; that' why
I expanded on this topic, trying to offer an introductory note about it.
The Colonial and the Orientalist aspects of Napoleon's Expedition to Egypt; above: the Battle of the Pyramids (painting by François Louis Joseph Watteau; 1798-1799, currently at the Musée des beaux-arts de Valenciennes); below: Original print folio, taken from Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt by Vivant Denon (Paris 1803); it depicts part of the temple of Horus at Edfu (Apollinopolis Magna); About:
https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/06380000199
https://edition-originale.com/en/works/artworks-12/description-of-egypt-1809-52/denon-voyage-dans-la-basse-et-haute-egypte-1-temple-d-appolinopolis-magna-a-etfu-2-situation-d-etfu-et-de-son-temple-planche-58-br-1803-29695
https://www.vivantdenon.fr/biographie/l-egypte/
https://www.napoleon.org/en/history-of-the-two-empires/biographies/denon-dominque-vivant/
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Мой ответ
I- Истинные и ложные империи, империализм и переход империи
II- Колониализм, морские державы и континентальные империи
III. Колониализм, монументальные публикации и лишение местного населения его прошлого
IV. Глупые Великие Моголы, глупые Сефевиды и глупые Османы
V. Ориентализм не следует путать с колониализмом
VI. Ориентализм и Эдвард Саид
VII. Ориентализм и Дональд Малкольм Рид
VIII. Ориентализм и «Черная Афина» Мартина Бернала
IX. Ориентализм во благо и во зло: откровение или сокрытие истины
Contents
My response
I- True and False Empires, Imperialism, and Translatio Imperii
II- Colonialism, Maritime Powers, and Continental Empires
III- Colonialism, Monumental Publications, and the Deprivation of Local People from their Past
IV- Stupid Mughals, Stupid Safavids, and Stupid Ottomans
V- Orientalism should not be confused with Colonialism
VI- Orientalism and Edward Said
VII- Orientalism and Donald Malcolm Reid
VIII- Orientalism and Martin Bernal's Black Athena
IX- Orientalism for the Good and the Evil: Revelation or Concealment of the Truth
My response
Good evening, my friend, and many
greetings from the Black Seaside!
Hope you are doing well!
Thank you for your interest,
compliments, attention, and questions!
Your brief email contains references
to very different topics, and although you may believe that they are
interrelated, they cannot be dealt with in this disorder. In the way you mix
them, you can never avoid confusion. Every item, element, condition, situation,
fact, concept, notion or person has to be first approached per se; if any,
interconnection comes after. I will give you an example now.
You say:
"kind of Western imperial
data-capture program"
and
"during its nascent stages in
the Germanic countries (under the auspices of the "Holy Roman
Empire")"
So, you refer to Western European
colonialism.
I- True and False Empires,
Imperialism, and Translatio Imperii
The term "imperialism" is
wrong, and even the term "empire" is wrong.
Even worse, the Latin origin of the
term is wrong too.
Rome was self-styled
"Imperium", but the correct term is "Principate".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principate
You may tell me that the Romans
claimed to be the recipients of the so-called Translatio Imperii. True! But
there is no veracity in their claims.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translatio_imperii
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/research/research-projects/humanities/claiming-ancient-romes-heritage
Even worse, there is also Translatio
Studii.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translatio_studii
And to add insult to injury, there
is not only Virgil's attempt to establish a narrative for the Translatio
Imperii (a supposed continuation of the Anatolian city of Troy in the Italian
Peninsula), ….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translatio_imperii#From_Troy_to_Rome
…. but there is also Ovid's effort
for another, more serious type of Translatio Imperii!
This involves amongst others the
following backgrounds stories and references:
i- Pyramus and Thisbe, the famous
Babylonian/Assyrian lovers
(The most famous story of Ovid in
Metamorphoses, Book 4; the setting: Ovid states that these young lovers lived
in Babylon, a city built by the legendary Queen Semiramis of Assyria)
ii- King Orchamus and the Incense
Lands of Persia
(in another story from Book 4, Ovid
introduces King Orchamus, whom he describes as ruling the "Achaemenian
cities of Persia")
About:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23269995.2013.809205
https://books.openedition.org/pus/5166
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/research/research-projects/humanities/claiming-ancient-romes-heritage
https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/the-interaction-of-empires/
https://www.philipharland.com/Blog/2023/01/assyrian-wisdom-the-kyranides-cyranides-on-a-journey-to-learn-from-a-foreign-inscription-fourth-century-ce-or-earlier/
iii- The Creation of the Four Winds
(This reflects Ancient
Assyrian-Babylonian world conceptualization and imperial doctrine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_the_Four_Corners)
This point offers me the chance to
give you an idea of the diachronically unmatched superiority of the Assyrian
Empire, and mainly the Assyrian Emperor. You have to go through the following
links to get a small idea about the unsurpassed majesty of the imperial
institution in Mesopotamia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkadian_royal_titulary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_the_Lands
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_the_Universe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Kings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Sumer_and_Akkad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_king
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Assyrian_kings#Titles
Also:
https://www.academia.edu/25626575/Chapter_5_Neo_Assyrian_Imperial_Ideology
https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/aebp/essentials/governors/assyriangovernance/index.html
When the spiritual background is
lacking, when the divine notion, mission and role of the Empire is absent, all
the material possessions and every inhuman Western European or North American
monstrosity exist only temporarily and in vain. Nothing will be left of them.
Either Virgil's delusional search
for an ancient origin or Ovid's mythologization of mistakenly learned or
deliberately distorted History did not suffice as theoretical background for
Rome to become a real empire in the way Iran (falsely named 'Persia') or Egypt
or Babylon or Assyria had been or were at the time of the Roman poets.
In other words, not even Rome was a
proper 'empire'.
Perhaps, only after the Christianization
of the Roman state and after the separation of the two states (Western and
Eastern), the Eastern Roman Empire managed indeed to become an empire due to
the institutionalization of the Christian Orthodox religion and the legislative
reform of Justinian I.
So, when it comes to Western Europe,
please, do not call the misery of their barbarism and the total lack of proper
perception of the Divine…. an "empire"!
Today, even the use of the term
'imperialism' by Marx is a reason to laugh.
So, the term 'colonialism' suits
your sentences.
Example: "kind of Western colonial
data-capture program"
II- Colonialism,
Maritime Powers, and Continental Empires
Then, you say:
"during its nascent stages in
the Germanic countries (under the auspices of the "Holy Roman
Empire")".
That's twice wrong!
Austria-Hungary (not anymore 'Holy
Roman Empire' / and in addition, the appellation was wrong) did not contribute
but opposed the creation of Germany.
Austria-Hungary was defeated by the
Prussians in 1866 in the Battle of Sadova.
https://kafkadeskdotorg.wordpress.com/2021/07/03/on-this-day-in-1866-the-battle-of-sadova-sealed-prussian-supremacy-in-central-europe/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_K%C3%B6niggr%C3%A4tz
The second mistake is the assumption
that Germany was a colonial empire.
Neither Germany nor Italy was a
colonial empire.
They were rivals of England and
France; and their rivalry exceeded the limits of Europe; that is all! Practically
speaking, the Germans and the Italians knew that the 'power' and the 'impact'
that the English and the French exerted in parts of Europe were due to economic
profits made overseas; and what people may call 'colonial adventures for
Germany and Italy is merely the reaction of the two capitals to the situation
that had arisen. But it is technically wrong to call these two Central European
kingdoms 'empires'.
In general, calling Germany, Italy,
Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Iran, Mughal Hindustan or China an 'empire' is
tantamount to being the lackey of England and France; this for an African is a
shame.
Why as that?
Because England and France want always
to inculpate others and avoid the consequences of their historically criminal
and inhuman acts!
As a matter of fact, one has to
always make a distinction between
a- normal, human, and historically
attested empires, which are always 'continental kingdoms that first envisioned
their position, mission and role in World History and later expanded (from
Akkad, Assyria, Babylon, Hittite Anatolia, Egypt, China, Iran, India, and
Alexander of Macedonia with his divided successors to the Eastern Roman Empire,
the Abbasid Caliphate, several other Islamic empires, the Mongol Empire, and
Russia)
and
b- abnormal, inhuman, and modern
bogus-empires, which are maritime colonial structures set up by heinous
gangsters, paranoid crooks, villainous fraudsters, and tyrannical propagators
of catastrophic delusions with which they intended to first fool and then
subjugated the world.
In other words, attempting to
posture as revivals of the pathetic Roman Empire (which was however a
continental empire around a semi-enclosed sea), the maritime colonial states of
France, England, and America ended up as a negative replica of the Carthaginian
Empire, i.e. Rome's heinous target and object of defamation.
And to stir your imagination, I have
to add that the single case of historically correct Anti-Semitism was the
absurd Roman Anti-Carthaginianism. Roman Senator Cato's sentence "Ceterum
censeo Carthaginem delendam esse" must become for all African states the
foundation of their most demanded denunciation of European Union and of the
Western World and the cornerstone of their rejection of the modern colonialism
in all of its forms, aspects and dimensions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthago_delenda_est
Going back to Modern European
colonialism, I have to clarify that there were only six (6) colonial states (or
bogus-empires) in modern times:
- Spain and Portugal were the first
two colonial 'empires' – cruel, murderous, anti-Christian, inhuman, and
barbaric; they wanted to propagate and impose the false, heretical and
monstrous Christianity of Vatican.
- France, Holland, and England were
the three colonial 'empires' of the second stage of Western European
colonialism.
It was then that cruelty and
inhumanity were substituted by a far more complex,
spiritually-intellectually-culturally-morally deadlier, and far more difficult
to detect system of compact Westernization, identity loss, integrity
demolition, and national disintegration that was first conceived in the Western
colonial capitals, then exported to the misfortunate and unsuspicious colonies,
monstrously projected onto the local societies, and systematically imposed in a
most sophisticated and multilayered manner involving many trickeries and
psychological machinations.
Last, Belgium was an internal
Western European rivalry between colonial powers. Its presence in Africa had
only one scope/reason: how to help the English contain the overwhelmingly
successful (in Africa) French. Actually, the kingdom of Belgium -in and by
itself- is an anti-French fabrication of the English; it was made out of thin
air.
If I am to make a comparison between
the first and the second stages of Western European colonialism, I will state
the following:
- Spain and Portugal obtained a
Primary School Leaving Certificate in colonialism.
- But France, Holland, and England
obtained a Litt.D. in colonialism (which is higher than a Ph.D.!).
III- Colonialism,
Monumental Publications, and the Deprivation of Local People from their Past
In its beginnings, this effort
entailed the multi-volume publication of enormous collections of data similar
to which no empire had ever undertaken before and no country dared to undertake
afterwards - with the only exception of France and Germany.
No one can speak about colonialism
without having duly studied the nature of works (and without having assessed
their true consequences) like the two monumental series below:
Hortus Malabaricus (1678-1703)
Complete edition: 12 volumes and 742
plant species and medicinal traditions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hortus_Malabaricus
https://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/blog/hortus-malabaricus-a-botanical-and-linguistic-treasure/
https://sarmaya.in/spotlight/hortus-malabaricus-an-updated-history/
Modern after effect:
https://www.hortusmalabaricus.org/
and
La
Description de l'Égypte (1809-1829)
First edition: 23 volumes
Second edition: 37 volumes
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Description_de_l%27%C3%89gypte
(if you don't read French, use a
software translator; the French entry is much longer because the English are
ashamed for having nothing analogous and they therefore want to somewhat minimize
the impression of the superb work done by their rivals)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Description_de_l%27%C3%89gypte
(first volume) https://archive.org/details/DescriptiondelE1FranA/page/n3/mode/2up
(what follows is called 'disgusting
modern Egyptian servility': Egyptian institutions propagate the most
anti-Egyptian colonial work ever prepared! One does not know whether to laugh
or cry!)
https://descegy.bibalex.org/fr/
In what did the two editions
consist?
In a complete, massive, irrevocable
robbery of a region's flora (in the first case) and of an (Ottoman) province's
monuments (in the second case)!
Of course, I mean an intellectual,
scientific, academic, educational robbery, but this is what matters. At the
material level, the robbery, although existent, was comparably small, if we
take into consideration the monumental scale of the preserved antiquities.
The flora of Malabar (India's
western coast) in the first case and the monuments of Egypt in the second case
were practically stolen from the Mughal Empire and from the Ottomans; in fact, due
to these monumental publications, they ceased to belong to them.
They belonged to the Westerners to
study, interpret, and utilize at will; in other words, the Western colonials
deprived the local populations of their flora (that would be better studied in
Holland) and of their past (which would be meticulously searched, comprehended,
and reconstituted in France). As a matter of fact, the soil of the Dravidians
(Malabar) and the land of the Egyptians stopped being theirs - at least as
regards its study. And the same can be said with respect to the History of
Egypt.
In a way, their past was not anymore
theirs.
You must be able to realize that ….
from the moment the French stole all
the material remains of Ancient Egypt by copying them, writing them down, and
making their most detailed designs, …
and
from the moment Champollion
deciphered the Egyptian hieroglyphics, …
….
to the moment one colonial power
will say to today's Egyptians
"your past is preserved in our
libraries, museums and universities; you did not do anything for it; you did
not care, and you even sold most of your monuments to us, whereas we did everything,
we cared about the monuments; so, now we are the true heirs of them, and you
must disappear like bad mosquitoes",
the space of time may not be as long
as you think, if we take into consideration millennia long perspectives
developed by ancient priesthoods.
All the same, all the points that I
just made offer a better illumination of what I told you first:
"translatio imperii". In other words, Western European colonialism is
the preparatory work for the forthcoming reestablishment of the Roman Empire.
Of this future event two opposite priesthoods have two extremely diverging
agendas, as they want it to occur under very different circumstances. This is
the clash that takes place around you, me and all of us.
IV- Stupid Mughals,
Stupid Safavids, and Stupid Ottomans
Now, neither the Mughal nor the
Ottomans were innocent in this regard.
At the time of Aurangzeb (around
1700), the state budget of the Mughal Empire was 10 times larger than that of
France under the Roi Soleil, Louis XIV. So, you can imagine their potential!
It is therefore a crime for both
empires that they failed to timely and correctly identify their enemies and act
accordingly; it was also a crime for them
i- to keep believing their false
version of Islam,
ii- not to realize the decay into
which they had fallen,
iii- not to fathom the distance that
separated them from the Golden Age of Islam, and
iv- not to react to that
embarrassing and alarming situation.
That's why they paid for that and
they disappeared as shameful and worthless institutions.
However, their disastrously negative
legacy consists in a terrible burden on all the pseudo-Muslim populations that
live today throughout the territories of the two vast empires; this is so
because they have not yet understood what I have just said, they have not
repented for their ancestors' mistakes, they have not changed accordingly, and
they have not comprehended the extent of the lethal danger that is lurking for
them.
I had to expand on all these topics
and issues, because it is necessary for you to know that, speaking about the
colonial powers of the West, you deal with extreme cases of unprecedented
monstrosity; if they acted as they did as per above, they will surely act
similarly under other circumstances.
So, documentation collection is the
key to colonialism.
Germany appeared late at the
international level; Prussia tried to react against the French, but the rivalry
was felt as 'European'. The same is valid for Austria-Hungary, Russia, Italy,
Denmark, Switzerland, and Sweden.
Example: Karl Richard Lepsius and
his historic expedition to Egypt and 'Ethiopia' (i.e. the Sudan, not Abyssinia,
namely today's Fake Ethiopia), which lasted three years (1842-1845), reached
further to the South, explored the sites of Napata (Karima-Jebel Barkal, Meroe,
and Naqa), brought back to Prussia an enormous documentation (no less than 1500
artifacts), and came up with monumental publications too. The famous 'Denkmäler
aus Ägypten und Äthiopien' consists of 12 large format volumes that contain 900
plates of monuments, and 5 additional volumes of notes. About:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Richard_Lepsius
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preu%C3%9Fische_Expedition_nach_%C3%84gypten
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepsius_list_of_pyramids
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denkm%C3%A4ler_aus_%C3%84gypten_und_%C3%84thiopien
https://aaew.bbaw.de/archive/lepsius-archiv/
https://aaew.bbaw.de/archive/literatur
https://www.europeana.eu/es/stories/a-lasting-impression-on-museology-and-egyptology-richard-lepsius-and-the-neue-museum-in-berlin
https://www.egyptian-museum-berlin.com/c33.php
See the transportation of some
monuments taken from Jebel Barkal (Karima) as depicted on an illustration:
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/view-of-gebel-barkal-illustration-from-monuments-from-egypt-news-photo/541325039?adppopup=true
https://www.meretsegerbooks.com/pages/books/M3227a/lepsius-karl-richard/letters-from-egypt-ethiopia-and-the-peninsula-of-sinai-with-extracts-from-his-chronology-of-the
Speaking earlier about Hortus
Malabaricus and La Description de l'Égypte, I said that only France and Germany
made the difference and produced equally lengthy and monumental publications
after the said masterpieces were published. I meant the following series:
A- Enormous collections of the
writings of the Church Fathers and other ecclesiastical writers published by
Jacques Paul Migne
- Patrologia Latina (1841-1855, 217
volumes & 4 volumes of indices, 1862-1865)
- Patrologia Graeca (1857-1866, 161
volumes – with Greek text and Latin translation)
- Patrologia Orientalis
(1897-ongoing, 58 volumes – with Syriac, Coptic, Armenian, Georgian, Arabic,
Ge'ez, or Slavonic text and translation in either Latin or a modern Western
language) About:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrologia_Latina
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrologia_Graeca
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrologia_Orientalis
and
B- Pauly-Wissowa's Realencyclopädie
der classischen Altertumswissenschaft; this is a series of German-language
academic level encyclopedia on Greco-Roman topics and scholarship that comprises
83 main volumes, plus supplementary volumes, i.e. a total of ca. 95 volumes.
About:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulys_Realencyclop%C3%A4die_der_classischen_Altertumswissenschaft
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauly_encyclopedias
However, all the other European
states did not develop the colonial ambitions of France and England, and that's
why their apparent competition with Holland, France and England in the
aforementioned and in many other fields and disciplines only strengthened the
effort of the Western colonials. This is exactly so because the other kingdoms
or empires were never maritime colonial powers; this means that they are not
colonially conscious.
V- Orientalism
should not be confused with Colonialism
Then you also say -mixing with your
aforementioned statement- the following:
"via a pseudo-linguistic
classification system contrived by "Orientalists," especially"
and
"then later exported throughout
Europe (particularly in England and France under the guise of "Oriental
Institutes")."
But Orientalism is an entirely
independent phenomenon.
Historically viewed, it may be
considered as part of the Western colonialism.
But it is not like that!
There is a vast, dynamic part of
Orientalism that has nothing to do with colonialism.
And if you don't understand this
fact, you live in a delusional world.
The
creators of both phenomena may be the same, but they did not initiate them
concurrently and for similar purpose. They do overlap one another, but only partly.
Do not get confused with the secret orders and societies of the Western world! When
they use their spiritual conical projector, they emit tons of energy, which is
directed toward one target; but next time, when their cone-shaped energy field is
projected onto another direction, there is still a subspace that is common to both
spiritual emissions.
Do not be surprised! The forces that
rule the present world originate from Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt; they never
lost the core of their function; so to some extent they repeat themselves. No
one can understand what happens in today's world without previously assessing
correctly and completely what the invention of the hieroglyphic writing was.
And the powers-that-be keep acting in full concordance with their past actions.
If you want to call it 'black magic', you will be wrong, but there is no big
difference.
Consequently, Hortus Malabaricus is
not part of the phenomenon called 'Orientalism'; but it is integral part of the
Western colonialism.
La Description de l'Égypte is part
of Orientalism, and also of colonialism.
The decipherment of Egyptian
hieroglyphics is also part of both phenomena.
But the tyrannical imposition of
modern Western educational, intellectual, philosophical, mental, moral, scientific,
academic, artistic norms, trends, values and tendencies on the colonized
peoples is not part of Orientalism. It concerns however several aspects of
colonialism. If the Algerians 'have' to know about Voltaire and Rousseau, and
if the Indians 'have' to study Shakespeare, all this has nothing to do with
Orientalism – although it is unquestionably a most nefarious part of Western
European colonialism.
Now, there have been several
approaches to the enormous phenomenon of 'Orientalism', which does not have any
corresponding 'commodity' or 'condition' or 'endeavor' or 'exploit' among other
civilizations and empires, before their collapse. But this fact constitutes an
enormous topic of historical research and moral conclusions that have to be
implemented at the international level. There cannot be de-Westernization
without a complete, comprehensive and irrevocable abandonment of the West
(Western Europe and North America) by the rest of the world. It is as simple as
that: either the Western powers will be identified and dealt with as the true
castaways of World History or the entire world will be taken into the maelstrom
of annihilation and extinction.
VI- Orientalism and
Edward Said
For Edward Said, Orientalism is a
literary and artistic issue of grave distortion and misunderstanding, because
numerous Western European and North American writers, poets, painters, and
intellectuals, who traveled to parts of the Orient to see things closely,
misinterpreted the environment that they encountered at the local level, thus
depicting as 'exotic' a milieu that was not exotic at all for the native
inhabitants irrespective of nation, state, religion, language and culture. This
is exactly what he comprehensively documented in his venerated 'Orientalism'
(1978). By the way, Bernard Lewis' politically motivated and colonially
expressed criticism of Edward Said's masterpiece is merely prepaid service
offered to his secret masters.
So, here you have a serious problem;
this is a vast field that has not yet been fully established as a research
sector. Attention! This has nothing to do with the formation of the Orientalist
disciplines (Egyptology, Assyriology, Iranology, Hittitology, Islamology,
Indology, Sinology, etc.) and the History of these disciplines some of which
have already a 2-century past; it has therefore to be taken into consideration
that postgraduate students nowadays can present their Ph.D. theses not only on
the antiquities themselves but also on how they were discovered, involving also
errors and omissions, misunderstandings and other circumstances occurred in the
process.
As regards the rise of the Western
Orientalist art and literature, the following major question remains
unanswered:
- Why did Western Europeans, who
traveled to parts of the Orient, failed to produce an approximately
representative image out of it?
There may eventually be many correct
responses to this question, but every approach to the topic will fail, if
modern scholars do not resolutely reject the nature of the Western sciences,
notably the Humanities, and do not actually integrate moral evaluations to
their conclusions. The human being around whom the so-called Western
'Humanities' revolve is fundamentally a 'moral' individual and the societies
that it has formed with the passage of time are all based on moral concepts and
values. Mankind means full consciousness of, and distinction between, virtue
and wickedness.
My personal viewpoint on the matter
is that Western Europeans, before traveling (even at the very
personal-individual level) to the Orient, had read about the Orient Ancient
Greek and Roman literature, which contains indeed an enormous amount of extreme
misunderstandings and deliberate distortions. With this background in mind, the
Westerners reached the 19th and/or early 20th c. Orient, which of course had
nothing in common with their readings; but they, instead of coming to senses, added
another layer of misunderstanding, which continues down to our days.
On this most troublesome background,
modern Africans committed an additional, yet calamitous mistake, by thinking
that they could possibly be 'educated' in the monstrous factories of deliberate
falsehood and systematized distortion that are euphemistically called 'Western
universities'. No African can possibly study at the Sorbonne, Oxford, Cambridge,
London, Yale, Boston, etc. without being irreparably contaminated with Western
European racist poison.
African students' graduation from
Western universities is death warrant for their nations and countries; without
understanding it, they get mentally de-Africanized and intellectually
Westernized at an irreparable degree. Yet, all African countries should demand
from all the Western governments, academies, universities, libraries and
museums, high schools and institutes, publishing houses and newspapers to
denounce and publicly demand excuse for shamelessly accepting as part of their
insolent tradition the famous Latin sentence:
- Quis nescit, Volusi Bithynice,
qualia demens Aegyptos portenta colat?
- Who knows not, O Bithynian
Volusius, what monsters demented Egypt worships?
This is the first verse of 'Satire
15' (as per the English translation of G. G. Ramsay, who added the following
'explanatory' title: "An Egyptian Atrocity") of the Roman writer
Juvenal (55-128 CE). About:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juvenal
https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/juvenal/15.shtml
https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/juvenal_satires_15.htm
If such monstrous verses were
written about Egypt 1700 years before Napoleon arrived there, and if they were
read, accepted as normal, and taken for granted by the European colonials, what
makes you believe that modern Westerners traveling in the Orient would really
bother to investigate in-depth and perceive the local reality correctly?
However, the worst aspect of the
19th–early 20th c. Western Orientalist art and literature is that they
projected their misunderstanding of the contemporaneous Orient onto the past!
The end result was a divergence of great magnitude, like what you see
-first, in the bas-reliefs from
Ashurbanipal's Palace at Nineveh, and
-second, in Delacroix's ridiculous
painting (1827) 'the Death of Sardanapalus' (after the Ancient Greek absurd
mythologization of the Assyrian Emperor, i.e. a literary event that is
posterior to the historical events by several hundreds of years)
About:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Assyrian_Relief_of_the_Banquet_of_Ashurbanipal_From_Nineveh_Gypsum_N_Palace_British_Museum_01.jpg
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1856-0909-53
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_sculpture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashurbanipal#Family_and_children
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libb%C4%81li-%C5%A1arrat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Sardanapalus
VII-
Orientalism and Donald Malcolm Reid
For Donald Malcolm
Reid, Orientalism is a privileged domain of scholarship the details of which
the Western Egyptologists almost jealously reserved for themselves for a
century after the decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphics; all Egyptological
instances, activities and institutions in Egypt were manned exclusively by
Western scholars, whereas the disinherited locals were considered good only as
labor force in the various excavations. The title of Reid's most famous book is
quite indicative: Whose Pharaohs?
In fact, Egyptology
totally and irrevocably deprived Modern Egyptians of their heritage and past; they
still fail to understand that their best specialists in the matter feel alien
to the topic, because their false Islam (as religion, history, and national
identity) makes them idiotically and calamitously believe that anything
antedating the life of Prophet Muhammad is irrelevant to them. Yet, this occurs
in total contradiction to the multiply attested interest for and search about
the pre-Islamic History of the Orient during the Golden Age of Islam.
In striking contrast to
the most illustrious scholars, scientists and mystics of the Islamic
civilization, today's ignorant, uneducated and absolutely fake Muslims are
fully indoctrinated with venomous ideological products fabricated by Western
Orientalists (i.e. Islamism and Pan-Arabism) and therefore cut off from their
Islamic past as well. Unless their fatal obscurantism is rejected, religious
universities and theological schools closed, imams and muftis employed in
agriculture and industry, and a genuinely identitarian movement established,
the corrupted country of 'Masr' will vanish at the scheduled time outlined in
the Western colonial plans.
It may be quite bitter
to say it, but this is what Donald Malcolm Reid's book reveals: how Western
colonials aptly and subtly utilized the formation of Egyptology and the
projection of Islamism and Pan-Arabism onto the modern Egyptian society in
order to also transform the local natives in a way to prove the aforementioned
verse of Juvenal correct and true!
VIII-
Orientalism and Martin Bernal's Black Athena
For Martin Bernal, Orientalism
is a different, quite illuminating, and most crucial factor in the anti-colonial
effort that has to be multilaterally deployed (in China, Russia, India, the
Muslim world, Africa, and the Mayan Continent) in view of the much needed
academic, educational, scientific, and intellectual de-Westernization, which
will liberate the human nature from the delusion in which humans have been
imprisoned starting with the Western European Renaissance and colonialism.
Martin Bernal's Black
Athena delivered a lethal blow to the foundation of the colonial constructs
'Greco-Roman world', 'Hellenism', 'Hellenistic period', 'Judeo-Christian
civilization' and other associated fallacies of racist nature. There is no
doubt that many others have to follow this path, which fully demonstrates that
the Orientalist disciplines can be fairly, convincingly, and effectively used
for the destruction of all major forgeries and falsifications of the colonial
academics of the 18th, 19th, and 20th c.
The above examples are
not exhaustive; there are many other positive or negative dimensions of
Orientalism, which can be utilized by scholars of good or bad faith. In fact,
Orientalism can mean "excellence in unveiling the historical truth",
"depravity in concealing the historical truth" or "malignancy in
adjusting recently discovered truths to early composed forgeries".
There is a critical
point of differentiation that the Orientalist disciplines empower us to reach;
but when we attain that point, we are not really conscious of what it means!
Due to numerous excavations and several successful efforts of decipherment of
ancient scripts, an enormous documentation is nowadays available to us.
Around one million
(1000000) cataloged and non-cataloged cuneiform texts (some very long; in
different languages) have been collected, stored and exposed until now in
various institutions across the Earth, whereas higher projections reach up to
two million texts, if we include tablets from unexcavated sites or private
holdings.
And an estimated at 5
million words of distinct text (closer to 10 million if we include major
funerary texts that are often duplicates) constitute the Ancient Egyptian
Hieroglyphic and Hieratic Corpus, whereas the Demotic Corpus is considered to
be around 1 million words.
But all these texts are
accurately dated and contemporaneous with the events that they describe, the
faiths that they proclaim, the stories that they narrate, and the cults that
they document. They therefore constitute a trustworthy documentation for us to
establish a pertinent historiography.
On the contrary, the
bulk of the Biblical and Ancient Greek Corpus is preserved in medieval
manuscripts which were written (supposedly 'copied' from earlier) at times 1200
or 1500 years after the supposed original text. The entire affair usually
called "manuscript tradition in Medieval Western Europe" is an
enormous fraud on which the entire modern Western education, science (notably
the Humanities), culture, and 'civilization' stand. At times, enormous
discrepancies are attested between historical realities of the Ancient Orient
purported narrated by 'Ancient Greek' historians and the medieval falsification
that was undertaken by the heretical (Catholic) monks in secluded monasteries.
Example:
The Fake Texts of
Ancient Greek 'Historians': the Behistun Inscription, Ctesias, Diodorus
Siculus, Darius I the Great, and Semiramis
https://megalommatis.livejournal.com/50756.html
https://www.academia.edu/115003715/The_Fake_Texts_of_Ancient_Greek_Historians_the_Behistun_Inscription_Ctesias_Diodorus_Siculus_Darius_I_the_Great_and_Semiramis
IX-
Orientalism for the Good and the Evil: Revelation or Concealment of the Truth
An overwhelming
refutation of the peremptorily written (by the Western colonial academics) World
History is possible, but it will demand the systematic work of dozens of
thousands of Chinese, Indians, Russians, Muslims, Africans, and Latin American
scholars, who will stop narrating the forged stories that their colonial
masters taught them, learn Ancient Oriental languages, and establish
comparative studies in order to reveal the concealed truth, leaving silly
sectarian approaches and biased concepts aside. This will be the proper
reaction to the evildoing that the Western universities keep perpetrating,
I say so, because in
fact, there is another, far more important and most concealed dimension of
Orientalism that went unnoticed until recently; and if it was reprimanded on
some occasions, it was never presented in its true nature and essence – let
alone denounced.
Without forgetting its
numerous other dimensions, we have unfortunately to admit that Orientalism is
also the studious, scrupulous, and nefarious effort of integration and
indexation of all the results of every Orientalist discovery, research, study,
exploration, and investigation into the absolutely arbitrary, deliberately
biased, entirely preconceived, and entirely false Western European 'concept' of
World History as it emanated from the vicious intellectual endeavors of the
times of Renaissance. It was then that the initial, definitely peremptory, and
even anti-historical concept was incepted, diffused, imposed and consecrated as
fundamental dogma of the modern inhuman world.
Concluding this first
part of my response, I have to make it clear that opposition to the European
academic establishment of the colonial countries is not an easy affair. It
cannot be done by means of
- ideological
opposition: most probably because your ideology is a derivative colonial
product the nature of which you failed to assess;
- theoretical approach:
since the structures of your thought may well be entirely Western, without you
having understood it (as Marxist, China is 'Western' indeed);
- academic criticism:
as you certainly did not even try to reject the overall scholarly establishment
the dimensions and the intentions of which you cannot fathom;
- nationalistic
reaction: due to the fact that no state exists today contrarily to the will and
the plan of the ruling colonial establishment of the West;
- personal
perspicacity; for your eventual rectitude as regards one point may well be the
result of your lack of proper conceptualization and contextualization of the
point.
It is very easy for
anyone to think that he is correct with respect to one issue only because he is
too much focused on it without however examining the overall context and the
intentions that may be hidden behind an apparently wrong data. The system is
too coherent for someone willing to remove or rectify only a minor part of it;
either you manage to demonstrate its falsehood, mendacity and deceitfulness across
the board or just forget it!
And remember: the truth
is absolute but the lie is relative. This makes the colonial system strong: its
relativity. The English understood this reality better, and that's why they
prevailed in their colonial competition against the French.
One has first to manage
to comprehend the overall system, its inception, its function, its norms and
rules, its intentions, and its purposes, and then to examine the validity of
one point about which there may have been deliberately drawn a false
conclusion. After all, many foolish people thought that it would be easy for
them to reject and overthrow the academic establishment of colonial Western,
but they finally ended up functioning very well as its elements. You have
therefore to bear in mind that the first and foremost element that a political
regime or an academic establishment tries to control is the opposition to it!
That's why they fabricate fake opponents; plenty of them! All the crooks, the
cheaters, and the fraudsters ('YouTubers', 'influencers', etc.), who supposedly
oppose the Western establishment, are its best tools.
I am not sure that you truly comprehend the dimensions, the roots, the height, the force and the evilness of the collective West; I do not mean governments but the forces behind them, i.e. the-powers-that-be. The largest states of today's world are mere toys to them. It is true that nowadays the Western world got destabilized. But due to the extent of the advanced degree of Westernization of all the other countries of the world, the entire system can continue, even if one automatically eliminates EU, USA, UK, Canada, NATO, Australia and Israel from the surface of the Earth by magic. The Westernized countries of the non-Western world and the people, who believe that they are not Western while they are without understanding it, are truly wonderful playthings for the forces that generated the Western monster over the past 5-6 centuries. And there is nothing worse than timeless malignancy.
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