The resources and securities of a large and centralizated population were viewed as desirable. The first people in the area were the Sumerians, who had been living in bands. These Sumerian people developed the first Monarchy to ever exist, along with the first written language Cuneiform.
A complicated legal system, religion, and culture subsequently developed under the monarchy. Their first City States formed between and BC. These City-States went through various stages of conflict and collaboration. But within the next hundred years, a people called Akkadians migrated up the Arabian penisula.
The Akkadian people battled the Sumerian peoples, and eventually they controlled all the City-States. This forceful take-over is particularly interesting, because of the high degree of Sumerian influence that remained after they were conquered. The Sumerian Cities were taken by the Akkadians, yet the Akkadians ended up absorbing much of the Sumerian culture, laws, and religion, and letting go of their own culture.
It has been theorized that this was the case because the Sumerian peoples system of operating a city was effective, and much of its culture was complimentary to the oprations of the city. The original"Babylon system"is exposed to us as something was somewhat self-perpetuating. These bold new cities in Babylon couldn't possibly function without Beaurocracy.
Beaurocracy was a new concept. In order to the feed the city people who worked, but didn't produce their own food, there needed to be middle men. These middle men had the task of figuring out the ammount of food that needed to be grown, etc. And this is where written records became of high importance. The writing style began as heiolyphic-like pictures, and quickly evolved into cunieform- a letter system consisting of wedge shaped scrapes.
This new field that emerged; the field of record keeping and beaurocracy, can be considered to be the most influential role in creating what we call the"Babylon Mentality". The Babylonians avidly pursued facts, numbers, measurements, workings, etc. They developed a complicated astrologocal charts, and detailed anatomony charts through observation. The Babylonians were solely concerned with the material aspect of living, and the way that they practiced religion mirrors this tendency. The first records of any written language are traced back to about BC in Mesopotamia.
This language was originally used for accounting purposes and continued to develop throughout the era in which Babylon stood. The scientific, logical mentality that governed their lives, extended into, as well as received from, their religion. They were, in fact, a very religious and superstitous people, but the deities they believed in had concrete ties to the realm of physicality. Babylonian people believed in Polytheism. To believe in multiple Gods seems slightly absurd to the modern person.
However, the effect it had on its people is similar to the increasingly popular modern religion known as Atheism. It becomes apparent how the"Babylon Mentality"of the modern Rastafarian vocabulary has a truthful synonomity with the Ancient Babylon's way of thinking.
The famed producer Dennis Bovell quit his sound system in the mid-seventies, after he was jailed for six months when police wrongfully accused him of stoking a riot. He and his friends were just having a party. While they heard sweet, soothing sounds that provided an escape from working-class drudgery, some of their neighbors heard danger. Because of scenes of racial violence, it was rated X in the United Kingdom, where it became a sensation. But, until now, it was never formally released in America.
The hero, a young man called Blue, is played with a quiet, searching intensity by Brinsley Forde, of the reggae group Aswad. When his boss goes from berating him to pressing him for a favor, Blue finally snaps. The emotional frustrations at the heart of the film build slowly, in tight, forced smiles and resigned sighs, on the edges of scenes where kids are just horsing around and making do.
The members of the crew are friends, and they share an unarticulated dream: first, neighborhood superiority; then, who knows? Rival sound-system crews engage in acts of playful sabotage; racist police and neighbors hassle them; friends give up on their dreams and turn their attention to making a quick, cynical buck.
But there is always the next party to temporarily wash away the indignities of daily life. Ronnie has other roles to play, too. To them, it is a sanctuary of bass waves and weed smoke. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Email required Address never made public. Name required. Follow Following. IslandPen Join 25 other followers. Sign me up. Already have a WordPress.
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