Yale, 2017, 312 pages

There are 15 striking aspects to Scott’s study of macroparasitism:

-1. His proof, for his main thesis, that grain agriculture predated civilization by thousands of years, and did not naturally give rise to civilization. He marshals impressive evidence that grain producers were captured in place by evil elites, who, like Aristotle, saw unbound humanity as nothing but latent tools, and that at every bump in the civilizational road, that people escaped states as often as possible. Over and over again, he states that the main commodity of antiquity was the slave.

-2. Although he points out over and over again that conquest involved the predominant killing [in battle and through overwork] of men and the capture of women and children, he does not suggest the obvious, that we have been bred, according to cull selection and rape, into slaves forever seeking a master. This is a necessary avoidance of a fight with the system we live under.

-3. After impressive evidence that Mesopotamian and Chinese states began as the capture of trapped wetland farmers in constricted farmlands stricken with arid conditions, that the prototype civilization that set the model for Egypt had as its primary component forced slave labor, he fails to challenge the prevailing doctrine that slavery did not exist in Egypt. He does no quote Ramses II boasting about enslaving peoples and settling them in interiors, just as Assyrian’s did. He does not even wink at the outrageous statement by the current dean of all urban history, who states in his Great Courses lecture that Egyptian cities were locked from the outside to protected the inhabitants, or that armed men loomed over women in Egyptian work houses to protect investment property! By failing to attack the establishment on this, after quoting all of the Mesopotamian authorities, and those of China, that walls were built more to keep slaves in than barbarians out, Scott does reveal, without naming the lie, one of our ongoing historical conspiracies against humanity. Well done, sir.

-4. Scott asserts from the beginning, without naming administration at the point of a sword for what it is, that the formation and maintenance of a State is a class conspiracy of the highest order. He fairly gnaws his way through the historical shield that the state does not enslave, without an overtly heretical smite.

-5. Scott does expose the Golden Age of Barbarians for the temporary life of semi freedom that it was, that barbarians such as the Scythians, Huns, Mongols and Germans, interacted with civilizations as mercenaries slave catchers, and slave suppliers. He never lets us go more than two pages without reaffirming that premodern civilization does not function without overt, massive chattel and racial slavery.

-6. Scott makes a good case for cheering on collapse of states for the very real reason that states collapse most permanently when their forced labor pool escapes. He then points out that “dark ages” decried by the sissy souls of his fraternity, are where art occurs, that the Dark Ages of Iron Age Greece brought us all the best poetry of Antiquity. He does no have to mention that Beowulf, Roland and Arthur all come from the Dark Ages of Christian Europe, or that Gilgamesh was a tale told after the ruin of those most evil Sumerian Empires that brutalist represented.

-7. In Scott’s parting paragraph barbarians are exposed as having dug their own graves by being one of the two dark twins of human exploitation, of serving, feeding and assimilating into states, with no characteristic in his description of the state that does not depend on slave holding, despite his backing away from the Egyptian question.

In the Glare of impressions 8 thru 16 we will see where the otherwise heroic academic sells out or turns a blind eye to reality, and rejoins the conspiracy of academia against humanity. The following is an illustration of how the Greatest Lie Ever Sold, of a “free,” 1600 to 1800 working class Anglo-America, is kept a float, by divorcing modern history from ancient history. Scott’s work is very valuable and packaged so as to maintain our ruling lie that we live in a post-slave error, even though we are forced by the point of a gun to pay taxes just like the ancient dirt slave. His 20 years working with livestock suggests that his crimes against the Truth below, are not from lack of opinion or character, but out of his desire to maintain his status as an historian.

-8. Despite repeated analogies from Indigenous America, Scott fails to equate the slave catching Scythian, who served in Civilized militaries with the slave catching Shawnee who served as British and U.S. Army scouts.

-9. Despite his exposition of pre industrial agriculture as dependent on slave labor, and pointing out that slave farmers ran when they could, he characterizes the 2 to 4 million European souls sold into North America and mostly worked to death [he earlier, three times, explains the extreme lethality of virgin land clearance] as having willingly immigrated for economic opportunity!

-10. Despite characterizing barbarians outside of Greece and Rome as having been escapees fighting the system form outside, he does not draw the same analogy with the vast evidence of “white” Indians leading North American tribes or of the Great Age of Piracy which was identical to what he described among nomads who sometimes fought for and sometimes against the State. Almost all of the pirates were British Navy veterans, just like the Germans who slaughtered Varus’ three legions in A.D. 9.

-11. Throughout Scott defines slavery down. For him as with other academics, people enslaved as “criminals,” debtors, serfs, soldiers, sailors, or enslaved in any capacity, no matter how brutal, by a STATE, may not be a slave, for only a person owned by an individual may be a slave in the academic view. This makes the state God, according to Leviticus. In my view this is no accident.

-12. Despite extensive evidence that the children of slave women had been denied equal status in antiquity, and that the standard definition of a born slave, was any child born to a slave woman, Scott claims that the children of slave women were destined for freedom! The rule that American slaves followed the condition of their mother had ZERO racial basis, and was absed on this ancient custom.

-13. Throughout the book, Scott claims that true slavery cannot be experienced by members of the same race or culture, that a Greek slave to a Greek was not truly a slave, that only the savage or barbarian slave might be a slave, and only among an alien people. This lie leads to Scott’ support of the foundational lie of our current age.

-14. In the last section of the book, on page 254, Scott agrees with his truth obscuring fraternity of The Lie, that only Africans can be held as slaves, and that only such Africans held by non Africans may be so characterized!

-15. Most importantly, to make the support of 8 lies overshadow the raising of 7 questions of the perpetual academic lie, after demonstrating that barbarism and civilization, in the form of the state, conducted ongoing conspiracies against humanity for thousands of years [mostly in the form of bondage] Scott never suggests that there might have existed a horizontal conspiracy that spanned both fields, and that the distrust of merchants endemic to traditional grain surplus states, a distrust he illuminates twice, might have been related to a horizontal conspiracy against all mankind, Civilian and Barbarian alike?

-16. For a 9th lie to make sure he was on the right side of history, like any good modern historian, Scott takes a backhand attack on Herodotus, suggesting that this man who worked from interviews and recorded quotes, “put words in the mouth of,” an ancient Scythian parlaying with Darius 1, for which Herodotus had court sources. Going out of the way to defame the oldest surviving historical work smacks of a balm for the various sacred lies he exposed.

Against the Grain is well worth reading for the sources of the truths that the author must ultimately obscure to keep faith with, or keep out from under the iron heel of, THE HOLY LIE, a beast it seems, that cannot die.