I am going to guess that that was not how it looked to either side, or rather perhaps to multiple sides, on the ground.
He is thinking of it, and describing it, as a sort of Win Win!
Central Europe populations won over by the power and attraction of Beaker ideas, and perhaps ideals! A prehistoric seduction of ideas.
Vox, and the likes of Dylan Matthews, are all over this:
If Beakers had taken over Europe, and they and their descendants had kept the faith and held it, for over 4000 years, then we would never have had negro slavery in America!
Beakers would eventually have gone back down into Africa and converted those negroes too, along with the central Europeans!
Trust me, those African negroes would have been wide open to those good Beaker ideas, just like the central Europeans ostensibly had been.
Vox, and the likes of Dylan Matthews, are all over this:
If Beakers had taken over Europe, and they and their descendants had kept the faith and held it, for over 4000 years, then we would never have had negro slavery in America!
Beakers would eventually have gone back down into Africa and converted those negroes too, along with the central Europeans!
Trust me, those African negroes would have been wide open to those good Beaker ideas, just like the central Europeans ostensibly had been.
Makes it sound like prehistoric populations thought a lot like Reich thinks!
Cf. Peter Winch, The Idea of a Social Science, "Understanding a Primitive Society", etc., and other authors.
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