Is Power's topic, genocide, 2002 book, A Problem From Hell, really anything new in human history or prehistory?
Maybe it is better, more thoroughgoing genocide, as I had pointed out against Reich re his account of modern admixture, which he has claimed is nothing new at all, even of degree or extent.
How then can genocide be a problem from Hell? Especially if it is called for by a holy war, sanctioned by God himself!
What is Hell?
Genocide has been a commonplace for millions of years now. Bibically, enemies of the Hebrews were "ground fine as dust."
Reich has noted some pretty Goddamn good total prehistoric genocides, total population replacements, more thoroughgoing than even the long drawn out Neanderthal genocide, which took several thousand years of struggle over a vast area, with a token admixture.
Isn't it, genocide, therefore, rather like inequality, or asymmetrical admixture, or extreme racial and ethnic endogamy, as Reich postulates, nothing new at all?
None of them are or ever were from Hell.
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