CarmineCatboy2 [he/him]

‘a big republican guy is gonna endorse kamala’

‘reagan’s staffers invoke the spirit of reagan and say he’d be pro cop’

But that’s just the thing, that co-optation of local traditions I mentioned? It happened in Yucatán as well! That sort of thing happened everywhere in the portuguese and spanish empires where state power was too far for the comfort of local landlords. This being the early modern state, we are talking about almost across the whole territory. This makes a lot of sense because many of those same landlords were themselves former native elites.

The spanish themselves, in this instance, had a choice to make and they made it.

That sort of generalization lets the monsters off easy and pointlessly demonizes everyone.

You know, I actually think it’s a bit more myopic than that? There have been many despicable warlords in history and even they weren’t all the same.

The standard explanation for the spanish burning the mesoamerican canons is that, in so doing, they were erasing a people’s identity and memory. It would be about power and empire building. Truth be told, the spanish also have a record of ensuring loyalty and compliance of the exploited peasantry by also *co-opting * local religious traditions. So even they could have just… not burned all of those texts. Hell, there are even Church arguments not to do so because a deeper knowledge of the ‘pagan traditions’ would be in the interest of the colonizing faith.

It’s not a human thing. It’s a historical circumstances thing.

like anything french its way too on the nose like what the fuck i feel like i’m watching a chinese historical romance and the borderland cannibal governor is being summoned with his army to win a mild dispute within the court

yes, and the khive itself is a phenomenom which is part of the cryptozoological mythos

What do you mean, I often start conversations by saying ‘As an Afro-Eurasian from America’.