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"* whose idea of "absolute freedom"? is this culturally defined? how can one be free if others are oppressed(and WILLFULLY oppressed) - i think we are running again into perhaps an undercurrent of Eurocentric thought."
* "A young German had the right to shave his beard only by moistening it with the blood of an enemy killed in battle. Robbery was an honourable exercise i nrisk and hardening when it was commited outside the tribe, according to Tacitus.
The Greek Olympus is identical with the Germanic Valhalla as far as the moral values which reign there and the occupations and the sentiments of the gods are concerned. Zeus triumphed by force over the rest of hte gods in battle waged with the help of Prometheus. His soul was the seat of indescribable intrigues, criminal ideas and choleric outbursts. He recoiled before no injustice, no sentiment, however horrible it was, he, was the master of Olympus, could covet the wife of another god."
- Chiekh Anta Diop, "The Cultural Unity of Black Africa," p. 162
* As an important sidenote and observation - I think we can see with this analysis the gods, the concepts, and what ideas reign supreme in the halls of power today in a very real sense. these are the secret gods of the elite.
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