Chapter  6

Throughout the animal kingdom domination plays an important role in determining the social and territorial order of the animals within the group and with the other animals outside its group. Coupled with the power of imagination, the domination instinct increased immensely. The hierarchy that had existed for the humanoids took on new imaginative meaning after the transformation. Dominant males became leaders, chiefs, kings. When a tribal language became sufficiently sophisticated some of the more imaginative people became storytellers, medicine men, priests, etc.. Kingdoms and priesthoods were created separating the classes of people more and more. Domination became the name of the game.

The animals and environment no longer provided much of a challenge. Mankind had survived the cruel elements of the ice ages. Animals were now killed as needed for food or kept as pets at home sites. Mankind could handle the environment pretty well, inventing new shelters, clothing, fireplaces, etc. Famines and disease were a constant challenge to mankind's welfare and helped keep its population growth in check up to about the seventeenth century when new technology in farming and healthcare began to allow the human population to expand rapidly.

After the transformation, domination and territorial instincts took on new imaginative meaning. The thing that offered these “new human beings” their greatest challenge was the desire to dominate other humans. What a tremendous challenge that was and still is. Domination pervades every facet of human life. Economic, political, religious, international, national, tribal, local, family, etc., all jockey for dominance. Most sports, people engage in or games they play, the desire to dominate their opponent is paramount. There is a natural desire to show they are stronger, faster, smarter, more skillful or whatever. Boxers try to smash their opponents into unconsciousness, wrestlers try to pin their opponents shoulders to the mat. Poker players try to take their opponents money. Chess players try to outsmart their opponents. It goes on and on. In Roman times, the contests were a matter of life and death when the gladiators fought to the death. Today games and sports are a fun challenge and add a little zest to life. They arise from the natural desire to dominate, a trait we inherited from our animal ancestors - plus imagination.

The desire to dominate also has a much darker side. It has led to constant battles between factions, tribes, nations, races and resulted in much of the grief people have suffered throughout the history of mankind. Paleoanthropologists have found evidence indicating a pronounced increase in mankind's violent cruel nature after the transformation. Tribal fighting turned into major battles. War, killing, sacking, torturing, raping, destroying one's neighbor with great imagination became the “new game” mankind played and continues to play today with great ferocity. (Mankind's aggressive cruel nature may have increased as the languages became more sophisticated and therefore the power of its storytellers to create hate and anger in peoples’ minds also increased.) War is mankind's ultimate “domination game”. It challenges the imagination to the limit. It all arises out of the ancient animal instinct to be dominant, especially to control the females in one’s territory. Besides the terrible killing - strategy, deception, bluffing, storytelling, invention of new weapons, all play a part in this game.

An example of imagination at its best was, during World War Two, our cryptographers were able to decipher the code of the Japanese navy. The resulting information let our admirals strategically place, what was left of our fleet, in the right area at the right time. This strategy was a significant factor in helping our navy win the battle of Midway and other crucial battles in the Pacific. It helped turn the tide of the war in that theater. The decoders were even able to pinpoint the location of Admiral Yamamoto (a man of strong visionary powers) which resulted in his demise. Another example of great imaginative deception was when some of our storytellers convinced Hitler that the Allies were going to invade Normandy at Calais rather then, near Cherbourg. This caused the Germans to hold their army back, waiting for the "real" invasion to begin at Calais. This never happened of course and gave the Allies a chance to gain a foothold in France. It insured the success of the invasion, probably saving thousands of lives and helped shorten the war in Europe. These are just two examples of the imagination being used in mankind's deadliest game.

Throughout the of history of mankind, battles were fought, tribes were conquered, bloodlines, ideas, customs, languages, were intermingled, adapted, improved, some became extinct. Slavery came into existence as a consequence of these battles and men's desire to dominate and plunder. The vanquished either became slaves or were killed. Slaves became a part of the merchandise to be traded and remained so up until recent times. In Roman times, after a battle, slave traders who followed the Roman legions, would buy the hapless vanquished people from the victorious soldiers for trade as slaves.

North American tribes played this war game by occasionally attacking and sacking a neighboring village, killing the men and capturing the women (just as other tribes did all over the world). They did not have a slave trade as far as I know. In ancient times the Romans would sail their ships up the Rhone River into Gaul loaded with castes of wine to trade for slaves. The Gauls would raid and capture people from their neighboring tribes and then trade these captives for the wine. Around the tenth century the Vikings plundered and pillaged Irish monastery and other European coastal towns capturing people to be sold into slavery. (There was a big demand in the Byzantine Empire for slaves.) The Arabs sent huge caravans into Africa for thousands of years capturing and trading slaves.

They still practice slavery today in Mauritania and Sudan using their slaves for; labor, breeding and sex. Around four hundred years ago the Portuguese began raiding the African coast looking for natives that could be brought to the New World to sell as slaves. Many African chiefs, motivated by the lure of easy profit, began raiding their surrounding villages, capturing their neighbors and selling them to these traders. Everyone involved in this ancient business (except the natives) found these endeavors to be very profitable. The Spanish and English soon discovered this profitable business. They legitimated the business and carried on slave trading for the next three hundred years.

Apparently anything that is "economically profitable" is a prime deciding factor in human motivation. If it is necessary to make a profit or fight a war or whatever, the human imagination will come up with some plausible reasons to carry on the task. Its conscience will be appropriately submerged to accomplish the endeavor, no matter what it entails. Slave trading had been a profitable business throughout human history. In the European middle ages the various religious and political factions were too busy fighting each other for domination, torturing and burning people at the stake to bother taking a position on slavery, which was happening far away in the New World and was an ancient human institution anyway. (They had their serfs and bond slaves).

Slavery was finally abolished, in this country, by fighting a great civil war that nearly tore the country apart and cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of our young men. It was a mankind “game of domination” that had to be played out. In Cuba, the government merely bought the slaves and set them free. Why didn't we think of that? When men cannot settle their differences any other way, war is the ultimate decider. As I write this, the contemporary tribes in Yugoslavia are engaged in a bloody civil war undoubtedly influenced by their storytellers, desperately fighting for domination of their territories, indiscriminately killing and raping, destroying each other just as they did in the days of the Neanderthals. (Early in the 20th century archaeologists uncovered evidence of mass killings that took place in the same vicinity in those ancient times.) This is the same area that ignited World War One resulting in unspeakable suffering and the slaughter of twenty million people. Its no wonder our leaders are extremely wary of becoming involved in their mayhem again. Worldwide, so far in the 20th century about one hundred million people were killed in wars, all in the name of political domination. I wonder what the next century has in store for us.

Note: This chapter was written in 1996, before the turn of the 21st century. It didn't take us long to find out what the 21st century has in store for America and the world. On September 11, 2001 a radical religious group of Muslims declared war on America by sending captured airliners full of people into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon buildings killing thousands of people and starting the wars of the 21st century. I just hope that mankind will be able to survive these 21st century wars. We are living on thin ice - one miscalculation and it will be all over for life as we know it on our beautiful little planet.

Slavery as a form of complete domination of other people has been going on since the time of the transformation. Someone had to do the work. Some of mankinds greatest "accomplishments" were made possible by the enslavement and forced labor of men and women. The great wall of China and the Egyptian and Central American pyramids are monuments to these atrocities. In Egypt, recently discovered bones of these workers reveal evidence of the harsh treatment they received. The Great Wall of China is said to be one continuous graveyard of the slave workers who were buried beneath it.

Rome depended upon slaves throughout its history. They worked the mines, served in households and built the Roman empire. At one time nearly one half the population were slaves. The Mongols brought their slaves, captured in earlier conquests, with them on their war expeditions. They where the skilled craftsmen and artisans needed to build the bridges, catapults and do whatever else was needed to carry on their conquests. The young women were shipped back to Mongolia for whatever. They slaughtered everyone else.

Slavery finally started to decline when the industrial revolution began taking hold and mechanical machines powered by steam became available to do the work. If it were not for these machines many of us may still be working as slaves or serfs. The proliferation of machines throughout the modern world has raised mankind's standard of living to the high level it is today. It has given the common man a chance to enjoy living. The more machines a country has (and energy to run them) the higher is its standard of living.

During World War II the German tribes over ran Europe killing and enslaving millions of people. They worked their slaves to death in factories. Many German households harbored slaves. Its possible that the German tribes are not any more demonic then any other human tribe. The human imagination can justify just about anything it wants to when it has powerful storytellers exerting their negative influence on people. The German people who migrated to our country are fine upstanding citizens who have contributed immensely to the progress and wealth of our country.

Perhaps when people migrate away from their tribal lands, the tribal link is broken and they can then live together with other people in peace. This seems to be the case in our country. Maybe the storytellers, who dominate in the tribal lands by constantly keeping the hatreds stirred up, are left behind. We are all part of the Mind of Mankind and therefore are all capable, of committing these monstrous atrocities. (An evil storyteller can turn peaceful men into a monsters, it happens all the time.) History clearly shows that given the right conditions and influenced by evil storytellers, any tribe or nation with sufficient strength is capable of horrendous deeds.

As I write this, African tribes in the small country of Rwanda are slaughtering each other by the tens of thousands trying to establish which tribe will dominate. In South Africa the white citizens are actually peacefully relinquishing the domination of their country (after much worldwide pressure) to the black citizens via elections. A really scary recent development has been the instability of Russia. I hope they have some positive storytellers to guide them in their transition.

In Israel the Jews are trying to maintain dominance over the Palestinians. In Ireland the Christian factions are fighting for dominance. Unfortunately our world is filled with tribal hatred and the desire to dominate. It doesn't seem like it will ever change. It is part of human nature. A large segment of America's population is filled with refugees who have escaped from some form of tribal or religious hate or were brought here as slaves.

At the present time with the weakening of the communism, many countries seem to be reverting to their ancient tribal hatreds. Which tribes are going to dominate in certain territories has to be determined. Yugoslavia is determining who will dominate through use of force, while Czechoslovakia seems to have accomplished it by a peaceful referendum. Worldwide, the best we can hope for is an uneasy truce where all nations are armed to the teeth and to fight would be a complete disaster. This is our destiny unless some imaginative innovator in the distant future is able to eradicate these "undesirable traits" from mankind via genetic engineering. It would surely make for a more peaceful world.

War as the prime determinant of who is going to dominate who, has challenged mankind's imagination more then anything else throughout its history. The history of mankind is filled with a maze of battles and wars that have determined which tribes and philosophies will dominate in their respective areas. The fear of being slaughtered by a gang of invading madmen (warriors) has been paramount in peoples’ minds ever since mankind has existed.

The need to survive and defend themselves has dominated mankind’s anxiety throughout its existence. Imaginative defense and offense strategies and weapons were continually invented and improved. Great castles and fortresses were built for defense security. Catapults and cannons were invented to destroy these structures. The stronger more imaginative, ruthless tribes conquered the weaker tribes and their cultures prevailed - for a while.

The invention of gunpowder completely revolutionized warfare making it much more deadly. The invention of the airplane, rockets and nuclear bombs have made the "game" mankind plays become so deadly that it now threatens not only its very existence but also the Earth's environment. Only time will tell whether the good side of mankind's imagination will prevail over the evil side. It would be ironic if all the work done by our early very distant cousins, those little single cell dynamos that painstakingly built our beautiful world, was destroyed by mankind. We may be the "cancer" that finally kills its host. Man is not a noble beast, the best that can be said about him is that he is an imaginative paradox. Instead of “Homo Sapiens Sapiens” a more suitable name for modern man would be “Homo Imaginative Sapiens”.

Mankind is made up of a vast majority of good people but history shows they are easily influenced, dominated and manipulated by the storytellers. Storytellers have tremendous power to influence other people into carrying out their evil wishes. It has happened since the creation of storytelling and will continue as long as man has an imagination. I feel one of mankind's greatest challenges is to try to suppress its "devils" as much as possible and try to live in peace and harmony with each other and nature. One of the first casualties of mankind's new imagination, was ironically, the Neanderthals. Although being very close cousins of the modern humans, they apparently lacked their vocal capabilities. Its very possible that they did not receive Our Special Gift.

Without an imagination they could not invent vocal word associations and hence languages. They therefore would not have had the tribal storytellers needed to agitate hatred of their foes and as a result fought defensive rather then aggressive battles. The storytellers have always had the pivotal role of inciting enough anger and hatred in their warriors to go out and commit their mayhem. Emotional anger and hatred is an exclusive human trait. It may have been one of the crucial factors in the Neanderthals demise.

The Neanderthals, before the transformation, may have been the superior fighting group, having a stronger physical frame and being more robust. They probably dominated the modern humans and along with the help of the other animals, kept their population in check for thousands of years. This could explain the "sudden appearance" of the modern humans after the transformation took place. It is more likely that both groups evolved contemporaneously from a distant common ancestor. Only after the transformation, when the modern humans' imaginative power begin to manifest itself where they finally able to challenge the Neanderthal's dominance. Vocal communication is one of mankind’s most powerful tools.

For the next thousand or so years the Neanderthals and modern humans competed with each other over territories and food. Many bloody battles occurred between the two subspecies over this time span but in the end the imaginative power and ruthless ferocity of the modern humans completely wiped out the Neanderthal subspecies. The fights were not big battles, just families and small tribes fighting for territorial dominance. Similar to before the transformation but now with their new weapons and tactics and emotional hatred the outcome was different. Now modern humans nearly always prevailed.

Eventually, after constantly losing these battles over a long period of time the Neanderthal's territory dwindled to almost nothing. They were not good planners in the first place and they just could not compete anymore with these new humans. They finally succumbed to their adversaries. They may have ended up being mankind's first slaves. There may have been other subspecies that we do not know about that also met this same fate. It was the first genocide committed by mankind, there have been many others throughout the ages. (The tribes of Rwanda, having been incited by their storytellers, are doing this right now.) Only the Homo Imaginative Sapiens hominids now remain on the planet.

Over the millennia the physical appearance of the humanoid tribes, who had become isolated from each other because of the vast area of the lands and topography, had evolved to suit their particular environments. This began to occur long before the transformation. The races of mankind have remained so closely related however, that any fertile human being of any tribe on Earth can mate with any other of the opposite sex and bear healthy children. The modern humans and the Neanderthals also undoubtedly mated during this era but may not have been able to bear healthy offspring, their races being genetically too far separated. If these two groups were able to bear healthy offspring their genes are now a part of ours.

Dominating or being dominated. determines how we live our lives. The following text describes the various groups of people, both living and deceased that exert their influence on contemporary life in America. This is the Power Structure of America, as I see it.