Climate Change And The Church of Latter Day Aztecs

With all this talk of climate change, I can't get the Aztecs out of my mind.  Particularly, the Aztec religion.

The central doctrine of the Aztec religions was, "Blood fed the gods and kept the sun from falling."  So, to keep the sun from falling, the Aztecs killed people.  Lots and lots of people.  It has been asserted, for example, that at the re-consecration of the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan in 1487, the Aztecs sacrificed about 80,400 prisoners over four days.  Other sources say, "Nah", over four days they could not have killed more than about 4,000 victims.  (Oh, ok then.)

In a good year, goes one extravagant claim, the Aztecs sacrificed 250,000 people.  Others say 20,000 is the more likely figure.  It's all pretty extravagant to me.  And to have that many people to sacrifice, every year, the Aztecs were in a state of perpetual war with their neighbors, solely for the purpose of harvesting humans for sacrifice.  You can admire one of their skull racks, a "tzompantli".

So, the Aztecs believed that if they did not spill human blood, the sun would not rise.  You have to meditate on this idea, for a moment.  Where could such an idea possibly come from?  The sun has been "rising" over the earth every day for about, oh, four billion years.  Without fail.  No exception.  No living creature on this planet can have any personal experience of the sun not rising, or anything like that.  Except, possibly, for the solar eclipse, an event that you might---might---see once in your life in the place you live.  (The solar eclipse can be perceived several times a year, somewhere on earth, but in any one spot, say Mexico City, it will be perceived, on average, about once every 350 years.)

Now, think of it.  Some guy sees the sun rise and set, rise and set, rise and set, every day of his life.  Until, one day, for no apparent reason, unless it is the seven minutes of a solar eclipse, he is consumed by the fear that unless he starts killing people, he will never see the sun again.  (Even though the seven minutes have passed and, having done nothing, he already sees the sun, again.)

Not only does Guy Zero (like "patient zero") believe this, but he has to convince his fellow citizens of this bizarre fear.  Convinced, they reorganize their entire society around this fear.  An entire society dedicates its physical and spiritual energies to perpetual war with their neighbors to harvest, sacrifice and, often, eat other human beings.  Consumed with this effort, there is nothing left for progress, as we understand the concept.

All this to influence a natural phenomenon over which they had no control, whatsoever.  Which brings me to climate change.

The earth has warmed and cooled, warmed and cooled, warmed and cooled every year for the last, oh, four billion years.  No creature on earth, with a lifespan of more than a couple of years, can have any personal experience of a planet that does not warm and cool every year.

A little harder to comprehend, and yet something we understand perfectly well, is that our planet has cycled into and out of ice ages many times over the millions of years of its existence.  Millions of years during which industrialization did not exist---indeed, during which human beings did not exist.

And yet, one day Al Gore is seized by the panic that if we do not completely re-organize our society the earth will---well, I'm not sure what it will do.  Al used think it will get too warm, but there seems to be something wrong with that theory so we do not call it "global warming" any more.  Rather, we talk of "climate change".  So, Al Gore is afraid that a global climate that has been changing all his life, that has changed for millions of years will, all of sudden, do something I'm not sure what, if we don't do something, I'm not sure what.

Actually, I'm pretty sure what.  Climate change appears to require of us two things:  truly massive wealth transference from the First World to the Third World, and de-industrialization.

Oddly, de-industrialization has been a plan since industrialization.  See "Luddite".  And income distribution has been a plan since socialists first walked the earth.

In other words, it's the same old socialists and the same old luddites with their same old master plans for social engineering, this time with the excuse that you will influence a natural phenomenon over which you cannot possibly have any control, whatsoever.

Just like the Aztecs.  And, just like the Aztecs, if we fall for this tripe, we will fall for some weirdo with a few men and some guns.  If we are not first crushed under the weight of our own stupidity for falling for the same old hustle.