MONKEY MEMO

from the Atlan Archives

DE VEERTIEN KENMERKEN VAN HET FASCISME

Dr. Lawrence Britt heeft uitgebreid onderzoek gedaan naar de totalitaire regimes in Duitsland (Hitler), Italie (Mussolini), Spanje (Franco) en verschillende Zuid-Amerikaanse regimes. Op basis van vergelijking onderscheidt hij veertien gebieden, waarin de ontwikkeling van een fascistische staat zichtbaar wordt.

1. Krachtig en groeiend nationalisme
2. Uitzonderingen maken t.a.v. de universele verklaring van
   de mens
3. Vijandbeelden gebruiken om de natie te binden
4. Prioriteit aan de strijdkrachten. Aanprijzen van het vak
   van militair
5. Openlijk seksisme. Discriminatie van vrouwen en minderheids-
   groepen. Homoseksualiteit en abortus worden onderdrukt.
   Prioriteit voor het gezin als hoeksteen van de samenleving
6. Controle op de massamedia

7. Nationale veiligheid is een obsessie
8. Religie en regering zijn 1 geheel
9. Het bedrijfsleven wordt beschermd in ruil voor steun aan
   de overheid
10. Vakbonden worden onderdrukt of verzwakt
11. Minachting voor intellectuelen en kunstenaars
12. Extreme aandacht voor misdaad en straf
13. Vriendjespolitiek en corruptie
14. Frauduleuze verkiezingen

GENESIS

The book of Genesis is about 60 pages long. It starts with the Creation an ends with death of Josef. The Israelites had migrated to Egypt because of the famine, that had struck the Promised Land. Genesis is the first of the books of Moses; the others being Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deutoronomy. Together they form the Torah, the laws of Moses and are most important to the Jews, who call it “the Talmud”. In total (in my bible) 250 pages. The Israelites state that the Old Testament had not been changed from around 400 BC. Every new synagogue needed a handwritten copy and this tradition is kept until this moment. Highly skilled scribes and control mechanisms result in perfect copies. The Islam claims the same purity for the Qur'an. Immediately after the death of the prophet (pbuh), his recitations were written down. This makes the Qur'an, according to Muslim religious teaching, superior to the Bible. Especially the New Testament.

They have a point. The first official content of the Holy Bible was the product of political conspiracy by Constantine the Great. In 323 the bishops of the Christian communities made their choice. Only four gospels were admitted, even though we now know, that many gospels circulated in the early Christian church. The gospel of Simon, Thomas, Maria Magdalene and Judas were dismissed and disappeared into history. But we still don't know, how the New Testament was composed. Emperor Constantine ordered 40 copies of the “new” Bible, but none of those made it. The first official Bible, we know of, is a Codex out of the fifth century.

Moses needed only a few words, to describe the creation of our reality. And even these few sentences have been a much debated issue. And I am far away from the original. My personal bible is a translation of a translation of a … It's not the word of God, but the world of a religious community. To them God created our universe out of nothing. I tend to disagree. I believe that God had material to work with. The empty earth, the darkness and the waters. All these elements needed a spark of light to let the world come into existence. You can call it a Big Bang, if you want to.

ON EVOLUTION

In Africa a tusked elephant is becoming an exception. In the last 20 years the numbers of elephants who develop tusks is steadily increasing to the point that a tusdked elephant is becoming an exception. Can we consider this as a form of evolution. In the concept of “survival of the fittest” big tusks was a tool of dominance. The bigger the tusks, the better the chance of having off-spring, which would have big tusks, etcetera. But having tusks became a danger for continuation of the species. Tusked elephants were killed by the thousands. Have tusks became a hinder to survive. In an incredible short period the species reacted. Having no tusks was the best way to survive. And so they did.

Charles Darwin is the founder of the concept of evolution. During the Beagle-expedition he collected all kinds of artifacts, fossils and specimen, which he studied for the rest of his life. Forced by explorers like Wallace, he published his bestseller “On the origin of species.”

I want to ask your for the word “on” in the title of the book. It expresses the uncertainty Darwin had with results of his research.

But his hypothesis became a law of nature. It was the ultimate tool to attack the official doctrine of the Roman-Catholic church, who dated the creation of Earth about 4000 bevore Christ, which included the Flood.

Darwin's analysis was focused on the development of individual species. To provide an explanation and to give an explanation he needed time. Lots of time. Millions of yaers to explain the diversity in fossils and in real life. This time-scale made research extremely difficult. Especcialy the search for the missing link. The transition between ape and human being.

Archeologists are researching in Africa to find this link. Recent findings are dating the first human being at about 1 million years ago and named them  the “Homo Habilis”, because it made and used tools and led a sort of social life. In due time humans developed and evolved into the “Homo Sapiens”. Modern man. In this time-frame humans met fierce competition, expecially by Neanderthal-men, but were victorious in the end. Neanderthal-man went extinct.

But like I said, Darwin and his followers need millions of years, to explain the development.

Darwin's view had a colossal impact on religion, society and science. Some say that it was the Devil, who inspired his writings. Darwin was wrong about one thing. That it takes millions of years of development, to explain the species on earth. Sometimes it will only take a generation, or less.