1. On Wed, Sep 16, 2026 at 04:12 PM, Barry Brooks wrote:
> > About 3,300 years ago, in the region around the Mediterranean, > civilization collapsed. ... the spectacular disappearance of a number of > thriving cultures in Greece, Anatolia, and the Middle East. The Minoan > palaces, with their astonishing frescoes of acrobats jumping over bulls, > fell into ruins. Another explanation is that a different group of Greeks, the Dorians, invaded areas dominated by Bronze Age exploiters. The Dorians had iron weapons and defeated "civilization." If this is correct, the so-called collapse from civilization into Dark Age is upside down. The peasants were liberated from their exploiters. If the Minoan ruling class had prevailed, the democracies that emerged several centuries later might never have happened. 2. A better review of the movie is "The Odyssey-Toward a Dark Night: Christopher Nolan’s Remake of the Classic Story" at https://multiracialunity.org/2026/09/14/the-odyssey-toward-a-dark-night-christopher-nolans-remake-of-the-classic-story/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#43438): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/43438 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/121288128/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
