Bloodshed and the Roman Empire
The worst cases of bloodshed in written history are all related one way or another to Roman mindset.
I will skip genocides performed by Romans themselves in Carthege, Gaul, Dacia where millions were killed. These were horrible events, but this mindset still persists and did not die after Romans disappeared from the world stage.
The Spanish Inquisition was horrific and was performed by Catholics who are the descendants of the Roman culture. That the Spanish monarch was in control of the events speaks volumes that the marriage between a centralized ruler and a religion is a bad thing.
The Holocaust, a state-sponsored, systematic persecution and murder of millions of Jews was organized by Adolf Hitler whose dream was to bring back the “Roman Empire”. Watch the hand salute, and the “Heil Hitler” shit. The salute comes from Romans, “Heil Hitler” translates to “Ave Ceasar”. My thesis on this point is that modernity, industrial mindset brought back the Ceasar-style centralization, enabled maximization, concentration of people, production, and various methods the state can use to further its agenda; and there is only a small step you have to take, to go from mass production, mass consumption to mass murder. The methods translate almost directly. If these methods are in the hands of people with a filthy mindset (a.k.a. Roman), you get Holocaust.
More? Armenians dying under Ottoman rule (it is speculated that Adolf Hitler used Ottomans as an example saying [I paraphrase] ‘see, noone cared to what happened to them’).
More? The terror created by Ottoman ruler Abdulhamid II in Ottoman eastern provinces, which resulted in the region falling into mass poverty, many Kurds, Armenians, Turks alike died.
More? Osama bin F..ing Laden. According to Bernard Lewis’ What Went Wrong? Bin Laden talks about a saddening point in time in history and mentions the year 1918. Most people in the world do not know the significance that year, but people in Asia Minor know it very well. It is a great day (in my view) because it’s the time when the Ottoman Empire finally collapsed. Sadly what came in its place wasnt that great either, but I am just glad that the old archaic structure finally disappeared. Now what do we have here? Rome Version 3.0, which represents another authrotic, despotic marriage between centralized religion and state, this structure collapses and Bin Laden is SAD ABOUT THAT.
This is the same Bin Laden who is responsible for thousands of deaths in 9/11.
Do you see a pattern?