What Hinders The Laughter From Being A Teacher Of The Truth?

What hinders the laughter from being a teacher of the truth?

-Horace

Yeah nah they're not re-writing this. My auto-didactic obsession you don't touch that.

If they cared about African history they'd not erase the entire dynamic between the native Kushite peoples of the Upper Nile (let alone the panoply of peoples within this "crossroads empire") and the Greek aristocracy that developed on top of it. You could tell (and have a history to reference more easily than ever) a damn good story with that? No? The wars of the Diadochi and the pressing of Africans to fight and the subsequent revolts? NoPe bIn tHaT..

To go a step further as I formerly stated the Greeks developed on top of Egyptian society and were strained to integrate. Outside of Greece they were never "truly settled" in a sense (you could even say that in Greece really...) Settling is not in the Apollonian spirit it is present, it is the body. It is that very practical, cosmopolitan, and mercantile society. (But like any it has it's hierarchies and by our modern sense it's atrocities that go with) It only existed as there was life in it and when withered leaves the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian column as evidence it was hence. (It was not even apparent to them at first to record their history, that too "carried with" in the oral/bardic tradition)

Really the hinge of the of the Ptolemaic Empire was Crete (not literally) but as a range. Colonies in Anatolia, Cyprus, Attica, Cyrenian Libya (formerly a Republic) distinct in retaining it's character. They were a people of the sea and clung to coast in every regard (or otherwise set off to find it). With that in mind, another avenue left blind by ignorance would only take a glance south in this period. Kush, Makuria, Aksum, a multitude of African Kingdoms going all along the Horn Of Africa (and all too relevant given contemporary developments).

All submerged for cheap race swap bait. A consequence of people who relate through a cracked mirror.

Don't believe me look at all pithy weaponized empathy but none of the foundation:

https://variety.com/2023/tv/global/queen-cleopatra-black-netflix-egypt-1235590708/

(From A Page)

At the corner of the cage

    debilitated stage

Motley does the fool

 grace our reverential haze

     Quicken up the pace

     Fallow is the gaze

 When all one need but ask

 “How do I navigate this maze?”

       hesitate

             ameliorate

          destitute age

 ponder on the question

  “What constitutes a blank page?”

http://xkcd.com/1222/

We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.

-Adam Clayton Powell