The Weird World of Sacrifice, Cannibalism, and Government
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*Warning, this post gets grisly, really quickly.* A significant part of human orders is premised on sacrifice or sacrificial logic. Probably almost all of it in some way or another, as strange as it may sound. Sacrifice itself is one of those things which when it comes to politics is given almost zero consideration. This is strange when you consider that from the neolithic until the classical period, all settled human orders of any size were centered around temples and governmental (if you can call them this) organizations that conducted animal sacrifice, and in a lot of cases, human sacrifice. I have been reading Plato with this in mind, because he, living as he was in a sacrificial Athens, seems as disregarding of the practice as Hobbes would be of Christianity a couple of thousand years later.
The Weird World of Sacrifice, Cannibalism, and Government
The Weird World of Sacrifice, Cannibalism…
The Weird World of Sacrifice, Cannibalism, and Government
*Warning, this post gets grisly, really quickly.* A significant part of human orders is premised on sacrifice or sacrificial logic. Probably almost all of it in some way or another, as strange as it may sound. Sacrifice itself is one of those things which when it comes to politics is given almost zero consideration. This is strange when you consider that from the neolithic until the classical period, all settled human orders of any size were centered around temples and governmental (if you can call them this) organizations that conducted animal sacrifice, and in a lot of cases, human sacrifice. I have been reading Plato with this in mind, because he, living as he was in a sacrificial Athens, seems as disregarding of the practice as Hobbes would be of Christianity a couple of thousand years later.