Everyone gives Edison all the credit for being the pioneer in this area, but in my opinion, Tesla was the real genius. Many of his ideas were either stolen or suppressed, in this era of big business and modern marketing.

Nikola Tesla is directly responsible for the modern era as we know it.
He is a true pioneer and visionaire.

You can watch who is he at History Channel Modern Marvels_Nikola Tesla-Mad Electricity\Tesla Electricity

Religions of all kinds have always, in the name of God, have denied science, killed non-believers, and attempted to destroy other societies. Lets get rid of all the people that are religious just to even things out.

Egypt has a long history of waring and enslavement of others.

Romans conquered many lands and enslaved them, even killed people for sport….. should Italy be torn down ??

Muslims conquered and enslaved many peoples and later, they were conquered, should they be eliminated or is the world supposed to aqueous to their demands today ??

Briton nearly controlled the known world at one time, killing many along the way, lets get rid of Briton….

American Indians attacked one another, also took slaves and territory…

The Spanish were known to be very vengeful in many areas besides the ‘new’ world, or was the inquisitions just a spectator sport ??

Incas and the Aztecs killed there own people and others no matter how advanced they were. Playing a soccer like game with the human heads of their conquests is not exactly a peaceful pursuit….it doesn’t matter if wars were ritual or not..

Vikings pillaged and raped just about everywhere they went.

The Irish and the Scots were war like mostly with each other and the Brits.

Chinese and Japanese also are not so innocent nor was the Vietnamese. The Great Wall wasn’t put up as a decoration.

I guess Gingus Khan was just a sweet pussy cat that was misunderstood.

Alexander the Great was just on a hiking trip to see the view ??

African tribal societies have been trying to conquer, control, or eliminate each other since time began. Maybe many of them were called warriors for that reason. Just as many street gangs of today, many of these warriors had to kill someone from another tribe in order accepted as a complete warrior. In a lessor form, it is still going on today. [ Necklacing is a term used to describe tying a rubber tire around the neck of the victim and setting the tire on fire while turning the now burning person loose to run around while he/she is on fire.. must be a ritual of some kind..] In earlier times, tribes sold their own people and people from raids on other tribes into slavery. The Portuguese were exceptionally adept at raiding black tribes and killing blacks that were not suitable for sale in the slave trade..

The point being that every society or group on earth from the beginning of time has at one time or another been involved in some kind of atrocity besides western societies. If you are going throw stones, make sure that you hit all targets instead of the ‘I hate all things western’ bias.

My ancestors came from the Netherlands. In fact, in the 1800s, the first of my ancestors to come to America came as slaves. White slaves !!! Yes, the Netherlands sold many of their own into slavery. The polite term was indentured servants but they were slaves none the less, subject to re-sale, beatings, and death. The only advantage was that when white slaves escaped, it was easier to disappear. The Netherlanders were not exactly angels either, [look up the Dutch West Indies Company..] but other than gather their victims before me and slit my throat with a dull razor , there is not much I can do…..unless you have some more immediate suggestions.

And to make the analogy of the lion and zebra was the most offensive statement I’ve heard in a long time regarding the conquering and brutal genocide of indigineous peoples. Even to suggest it seems to says that it is the natural order of things and therefore it’s ok. You’re actually saying the western world are the conquering lions and the indigenious peoples are the weak defenceless zebras who are by natures way going to be eaten and dominated by the lions. This analogy is high naive and childish and without any thought. The differnce between lions in the wild and the western conquerors is that lions run on instinct and the western conquerors are humans that can make decisions for themselves and they choose to slaughter and take advantage of peoples who were peaceful and far more advanced in their own ways that didn’t include effeciency of muder.

I hope you simply used a bad analogy for what you were saying but still the implied statement is appauling enough on it’s own.

I was initially looking forward to watching them based on the fact that the overview stated that they had taken into account the views of the indiginous people…unfortunately this was limited to how western cultures translate the meanings of indiginous cultures in the same context as their own.

Very sad that this was not quite updated enough to include the more cutting edge research that has been carried out on the destruction of the native people and the effects that eurocentric philosophy and psychology has when it blames the victims.

For example, in order to play down their bloodthirsty murderous pasts, the conquistadors were seen as having superior weaponry and therefore able to conquer!

If we look at this in the context of the culture, warfare within the inca nation was not about killing and fighting, more about spiritual ritual.

Rulers were not seen as ‘in charge’ more ‘servants’ of the people. As the more aware members of society know, the culture of the government spreads through the people. The Incas lived in equal societies. (no need for war, or battle for leadership in the western context)

So basically, the conquistadors were not ‘lucky’ or ‘skilled’ just murderous heathens let loose among spiritual ‘children’.

Shame…could have been more sensitively done and then they might have been very powerful docs indeed!