“It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones. ”
― Niccolò Machiavelli
THE DATA
Between 2018 and 2019 and 2020, use of other illegal or misused prescription drugs among young adults aged 13 to 15 in the U.S. decreased by 71% , from 3.5% to 1%.
Joseph Palamar, an associate professor of population health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine said that the sudden, gigantic, historically-unprecedented decreases in teen drug use were driven by "lack of availability ". He said "If high schoolers are separated from their friends for a long time and stuck inside, they’ll likely have decreased access to drugs ".
Joseph put those bullshit plausible-deniability excuses forward because he knows that many or most readers will grasp virtually any straw, no matter how thin, to remain off the hook of personal responsibility.
As a propagandist, he’s desperate to keep you from recognizing that moral and mental health vary directly with that of the subject’s etheric environment.
From between 2018 and 2019 to 2020, binge drinking among young adults aged 13 to 15 in the U.S. decreased by 63%, from .8% to .3%.
Between 2018 and 2019 and 2020, use of other illegal or misused prescription drugs among young adults aged 16 to 17 in the U.S. decreased by 62%, from 4.7% to 1.8%.
From between 2018 and 2019 to 2020, tobacco use among young adults aged 13 to 15 in the U.S. decreased by 58%, from 6.2% to 2.6%.
From between 2018 and 2019 to 2020, tobacco use among young adults aged 16 to 17 years in the U.S. decreased by 53%, from 19.5% to 9.2%.
Between 2018 and 2019 and 2020, cannabis use among young adults aged 16 to 17 in the U.S. decreased by 49%, from 14.9% to 7.6%.
Between 2018 and 2019 and 2020, binge drinking among young adults aged 16 to 17 in the U.S. decreased by 40%, from 4.0% to 2.4%.
Between 2018 and 2019 and 2020, use of illegal or misused prescription drugs among adults 25 and older in the U.S. decreased by 36% , from 5.8% to 3.7%. CNN’s Sandee LaMotte said “Adult drug use rose during pandemic”.
Between 2018 and 2019 and 2020, tobacco use among adults aged 21 to 24 years in the U.S. decreased by 23% , from 39% to 30%.
Between 2018 to 2019 and 2020, binge drinking among young adults aged 18 to 20 years in the U.S. decreased by 20% , from 10.7% to 8.6%.
Between 2018 and 2019 and 2020, tobacco use among adults aged 25 and older in the U.S. decreased by 12.8% , from 26.5% to 23.1%.
Between 2018 and 2019 and 2020, binge drinking among adults aged 25 and older in the U.S. decreased by 7.8%, from 6.4% to 5.9%.
Between 2018 and 2019 and 2020, alcohol use among adults aged 25 and older in the U.S. increased by .2% , from 53.6% to 53.7%.
Between 2018 and 2019 and 2020, binge drinking among adults aged 21 to 24 years in the U.S. increased by .8% , from 12.3% to 12.4%.
Between 2018 and 2019 and 2020, cannabis use among adults aged 21 to 24 years in the U.S. increased by 1.9% , from 26.5% to 27%.
Between 2018 and 2019 and 2020, use of illegal or misused prescription drugs among adults aged 21 to 24 years in the U.S. increased by 3.5%, from 5.7% to 5.9%.
Between 2018 and 2019 and 2020, alcohol use among adults aged 21 to 24 years in the U.S. increased by 8%, from 60.2% to 65.2%.
Between 2018 and 2019 and 2020, cannabis use among adults aged 25 and older in the U.S. increased by 9.7% , from 11.3% to 12.4%.
From 2019 to 2020, tobacco use among young adults aged 13 to 15 in the U.S. remained unchanged, at 2.6%.
From September 2021 to September 2022, drug overdoses in the United States decreased by 7.2% , from 108,037 to 100,500. U.S. News’ Chris Gilligan omitted the percentage, and referred to it only-generally as an "apparent drop ", and that it was “unevenly ticking down”.
THE ARTICLES
On January 31, 2023, cnn.com said “Adult drug use rose during pandemic, but dropped dramatically in youth, study says”.
Where author Sandee LaMotte said “dropped dramatically” because, as a propagandist, she knows that seventy percent of readers only read the headlines, and her hedging generality goes a long way toward “compartmentalizing” awareness of the sudden, exponential decrease in drug use which she is attempting to obfuscate.
She said “drug use rose” because “rose” is general, and because it’s softer than “increased”, but mostly as a thinly-veiled reference to the Atonist Black Sun cult which has run things in all the nations all the way back to Babylon, and before.
Let’s go to the game films! Between 2018 and 2019 and 2020, use of illegal or misused prescription drugs among adults 25 and older in the U.S. decreased by 36%, from 5.8% to 3.7%.
Thus, Sandee LaMotte’s claim in the headline that adult drug use “rose” is a bald-faced lie. I have exposed her duplicity by using what was known in the old days as “fact checking”.
The article goes on to say "Cannabis use among teenagers ages 13 and 15 dropped by 3.4 percentage points in 2020 compared to 2018 and 2019, while tobacco use declined by about 4 points, the study found. The use of other illegal or misused prescription drugs also fell 2.5 percentage points in this age group.
Use of marijuana in teens ages 16 and 17 dropped 7.3 percentage points in 2020 compared to 2018 and 2019. Tobacco use fell by over 10 points and misuse of drugs sank by nearly 3 percentage points. Binge drinking dipped by 1.6 percentage points across the age group."
There’s a strict rule in journalism, where you list the highest number or percentage first, and then the rest in descending order. Yet, here, CNN’s Sandee LaMotte brazenly inverted it, with 3.4, followed by 4, followed by 10. As a bonus, she listed every decrease in percentage points, because they are smaller than percentages, and because points are positive. You score points
I had to click the link to the study to get the data. Sandee did that intentionally. It’s an example of the propaganda technique known as “compartmentalization”.
Here’s the pile of data that I had to sift through, where first author Wilson M. Compton deliberately presented it in a way where the trends cannot be discerned:
"In 2020, the prevalence of past 30-day any tobacco use for age groups 13 to 15 years, 16 to 17 years, 18 to 20 years, 21 to 24 years, and 25 years or older was 2.6% (95% CI, 2.1%-3.3%), 9.2% (95% CI, 8.2%-10.4%), 22.8% (95% CI, 21.2%-24.4%), 30.9% (95% CI, 28.5%-33.3%), and 23.1% (95% CI, 22.1%-24.2%), respectively; for past 30-day any alcohol use, 4.6% (95% CI, 3.9%-5.4%), 12.9% (95% CI, 11.7%-14.1%), 35.0% (95% CI, 33.2%-36.8%), 65.2% (95% CI, 62.1%-68.1%), and 53.7% (95% CI, 51.2%-56.0%), respectively; for past 30-day binge drinking, 0.3% (95% CI, 0.1%-0.6%), 2.4% (95% CI, 2.0%-3.0%), 8.6% (95% CI, 7.6%-9.7%), 12.4% (95% CI, 10.8%-14.1%), and 5.9% (95% CI, 5.3%-6.6%), respectively; for past 30-day cannabis use, 1.7% (95% CI, 1.3%-2.2%), 7.6% (95% CI, 6.6%-8.7%), 19.1% (95% CI, 17.4%-20.8%), 27.0% (95% CI, 24.9%-29.3%), and 12.4% (95% CI, 11.4%-13.5%), respectively; and for past 30-day use of other illegal or misused prescription drugs 1.0% (95% CI, 0.7%-1.5%), 1.8% (95% CI, 1.3%-2.4%), 3.0% (95% CI, 2.4%-3.8%), 5.9% (95% CI, 4.9%-7.1%), and 3.7% (95% CI, 3.1%-4.3%), respectively.
From 2016 to 2019, among youths ages 13 to 15 years and 16 to 17 years, the prevalence of any past 30-day tobacco use increased; whereas prevalence of other substances and binge drinking did not consistently increase or decrease (Table and Figure 1; eTable 2 in Supplement 1). Between 2018 to 2019 and 2020, prevalence of all substances sharply decreased. For example, among youth ages 13 to 15 years and 16 to 17 years, past 30-day prevalence of any tobacco use declined from 6.9% to 2.6% (difference, −4.2 percentage points; 95% CI, −5.1 to −3.6 percentage points; P < .001) and from 19.5% to 9.2% (difference, −10.3 percentage points; 95% CI, −11.6 to −9.0 percentage points; P < .001), respectively; binge drinking declined from 0.8% to 0.3% (difference, −0.5 percentage points; 95% CI, −0.8 to −0.3 percentage points; P = .005) and from 4.0% to 2.4% (difference, −1.6 percentage points; 95% CI, −2.4 to −0.7 percentage points; P < .001), respectively; cannabis use declined from 5.1% to 1.7% (difference, −3.4 percentage points; 95% CI, −4.1 to −2.6 percentage points; P < .001) and from 14.9% to 7.6% (difference, −7.3 percentage points; 95% CI, −8.8 to −5.8 percentage points; P < .001), respectively; use of other illegal or misused prescription drugs declined from 3.5% to 1.0% (difference −2.5 percentage points; 95% CI, −3.1 to −1.9 percentage points; P < .001) and from 4.7% to 1.8% (difference, −2.9 percentage points; 95% CI, −3.8 to −2.1 percentage points; P < .001), respectively.
Among young adults ages 18 to 20 years, between 2016 to 2017 and 2018 to 2019, prevalence of past 30-day tobacco use increased, while past 30-day any alcohol and other substances decreased (Table and Figure 2; eTable 2 in Supplement 1). Between 2018 to 2019 and 2020, other than for past 30-day any alcohol use, past 30-day prevalence of all substances decreased significantly, including declines in past 30-day prevalence of binge drinking from 10.7% to 8.6% (difference −2.2 percentage points; 95% CI, −3.4 to −0.3 percentage points; P < .001).
In adults aged 21 to 24 years, past 30-day tobacco use and cannabis use increased between 2016 to 2017 and 2018 to 2019. Comparing 2018 to 2019 with 2020, past 30-day tobacco use declined, and use of any alcohol increased significantly (Table and Figure 2; eTable 2 in Supplement 1). Past 30-day prevalence of any tobacco use declined from 39.0% to 30.9% (difference −8.2 percentage points, 95% CI, −10.6 to −5.7 percentage points; P < .001); use of any alcohol increased from 60.2% to 65.2% (difference, 5.0 percentage points; 95% CI, 2.3 to 7.7 percentage points; P < .001); binge drinking, cannabis use, and use of other illegal and misused prescription drugs did not vary significantly.
Among adults aged 25 years and older, past 30-day cannabis use increased between 2016 to 2017 and 2018 to 2019 (Table and Figure 2; eTable 2 in Supplement 1). Between 2018 to 2019 and 2020, past 30-day tobacco use decreased, cannabis use increased, and use of other illegal and misused prescription drugs declined. Past 30-day prevalence of any tobacco use declined from 26.5% to 23.1% (difference, −3.4 percentage points; 95% CI, −4.2 to −2.6 percentage points; P < .001); cannabis use increased from 11.3% to 12.4% (difference, 1.2 percentage points; 95% CI, 0.3 to 2.0 percentage points; P = .004); use of other illegal or misused prescription drugs declined from 5.8% to 3.7% (difference, −2.1 percentage points; 95% CI, −2.9 to −1.4 percentage points; P < .001); use of any alcohol and binge drinking did not change significantly.
When stratified by ages 25 to 49 years compared with 50 years or older, sex, race and ethnicity, or household income, some estimates varied, but no consistent trends were identified (eTables 3-11 in Supplement 1). When stratified by postsecondary degree enrollment (eTable 12 in Supplement 1), binge drinking decreased significantly among 18- to 20-year-old enrollees but not for nonenrollees. Among adults ages 21 to 24 years, any alcohol increased significantly for nonenrollees but not for enrollees."
Now I’m going to break it down into something a human being can read and understand.
From between 2018 and 2019 to 2020, tobacco use among young adults aged 13 to 15 in the U.S. decreased by 58%, from 6.2% to 2.6%. Jama Open Network first author Wilson M. Compton omitted the percentage, and described it as “declined 4.2 percentage points”.
That’s because declines are gradual, and points are smaller than percentages.
From between 2018 and 2019 to 2020, tobacco use among young adults aged 16 to 17 years in the U.S. decreased by 53%, from 19.5% to 9.2%. Jama Open Network first author Wilson M. Compton omitted the percentage, and described it as “difference, -10.3 percentage points”.
He said it that way because points are smaller than percentages, and he’s doing whatever he can to hedge and defray.
From 2019 to 2020, tobacco use among young adults aged 13 to 15 in the U.S. remained unchanged, at 2.6%.
From between 2018 and 2019 to 2020, binge drinking among young adults aged 13 to 15 in the U.S. decreased by 63%, from .8% to .3%. Jama Open Network first author Wilson M. Compton omitted the percentage, and described it as “difference, -.5 percentage points”.
He said it that way because points are smaller than percentages, and he’s doing whatever he can to hedge and defray.
Between 2018 and 2019 and 2020, binge drinking among young adults aged 16 to 17 in the U.S. decreased by 40%, from 4.0% to 2.4%. Jama Open Network first author Wilson M. Compton omitted the percentage, and described it as “difference, -1.6 percentage points”.
He said it that way because points are smaller than percentages, and he’s doing whatever he can to hedge and defray.
Between 2018 and 2019 and 2020, cannabis use among young adults aged 13 to 15 in the U.S. decreased by %, from 5.1% to 1.7%. Jama Open Network first author Wilson M. Compton omitted the percentage, and described it as “difference, -3.4 percentage points”.
He said it that way because points are smaller than percentages, and he’s doing whatever he can to hedge and defray.
Between 2018 and 2019 and 2020, cannabis use among young adults aged 16 to 17 in the U.S. decreased by 49%, from 14.9% to 7.6%. Jama Open Network first author Wilson M. Compton omitted the percentage, and described it as “difference, -7.3 percentage points”.
He said it that way because points are smaller than percentages, and he’s doing whatever he can to hedge and defray.
Between 2018 and 2019 and 2020, use of other illegal or misused prescription drugs among young adults aged 13 to 15 in the U.S. decreased by 71%, from 3.5% to 1%. Jama Open Network first author Wilson M. Compton omitted the percentage, and described it as “difference, -1.9 percentage points”.
He said it that way because points are smaller than percentages, and he’s doing whatever he can to hedge and defray.
Between 2018 and 2019 and 2020, use of other illegal or misused prescription drugs among young adults aged 16 to 17 in the U.S. decreased by 62%, from 4.7% to 1.8%. Jama Open Network first author Wilson M. Compton omitted the percentage, and described it as “difference, -2.9 percentage points”.
He said it that way because points are smaller than percentages, and he’s doing whatever he can to hedge and defray.
Joseph Palamar, an associate professor of population health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine said that the sudden, gigantic, historically-unprecedented decreases in teen drug use were driven by "lack of availability ". He said "If high schoolers are separated from their friends for a long time and stuck inside, they’ll likely have decreased access to drugs ".
Joseph used those plausible-deniability excuses because he’s desperate to keep you from recognizing that moral and mental health vary directly with that of the subject’s etheric environment.
Here’s Joseph Palamar’s picture:
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(Joseph Palamar, Associate Professor of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Joseph said that the 71% decrease in the use of other illegal or misused prescription drugs among young adults aged 13 to 15 in the U.S. between 2018 and 2019 and 2020 was due to “lack of availability” and "decreased access to drugs.)
Can you see how the picture is off center to the left to give prominence to Joseph’s left eye? That’s because, to followers of the Left-hand path like Joseph, the left eye is the “eye of Will” or the “eye of Horus”.
But don’t take my word for it:
‘The right eye is the Eye of Ra and the left is the Eye of Horus’.”
From “Freemasonry - Religion And Belief - The 3rd Temple”
Facebook: “Welcome to the Left-Hand-Path-Network, where Satanism is not about worship, but it’s study.”
I have included Joseph Palamar’s photograph so that you could get a better idea of what a generational Satanist Freemason in a position of marginal influence looks like.
He figured that the rubes would never notice the coded visual imagery.
They are all related to one another through the maternal bloodline. They comprise between twenty and thirty percent of the populace, and are hiding in plain sight in every city, town and village on Earth. It’s how the few have controlled the many all the way back to Babylon, and before.
But they say that the hardest part of solving a problem is recognizing that you have one.
Don Croft used to say “Parasites fear exposure above all else”.
Between 2018 to 2019 and 2020, binge drinking among young adults aged 18 to 20 years in the U.S. decreased by 20%, from 10.7% to 8.6%. Jama Open Network first author Wilson M. Compton omitted the percentage, and described it as “difference, -2.2 percentage points”.
He said it that way because points are smaller than percentages, and he’s doing whatever he can to hedge and defray.
Between 2018 and 2019 and 2020, tobacco use among adults aged 21 to 24 years in the U.S. decreased by 23%, from 39% to 30%.
Between 2018 and 2019 and 2020, alcohol use among adults aged 21 to 24 years in the U.S. increased by 8%, from 60.2% to 65.2%.
Between 2018 and 2019 and 2020, binge drinking among adults aged 21 to 24 years in the U.S. increased by .8%, from 12.3% to 12.4%.
Between 2018 and 2019 and 2020, cannabis use among adults aged 21 to 24 years in the U.S. increased by 1.9%, from 26.5% to 27%.
Between 2018 and 2019 and 2020, use of illegal or misused prescription drugs among adults aged 21 to 24 years in the U.S. increased by 3.5%, from 5.7% to 5.9%.
Between 2018 and 2019 and 2020, tobacco use among adults aged 25 and older in the U.S. decreased by 12.8%, from 26.5% to 23.1%.
Between 2018 and 2019 and 2020, alcohol use among adults aged 25 and older in the U.S. increased by .2%, from 53.6% to 53.7%.
Between 2018 and 2019 and 2020, binge drinking among adults aged 25 and older in the U.S. decreased by 7.8%, from 6.4% to 5.9%.
Between 2018 and 2019 and 2020, cannabis use among adults aged 25 and older in the U.S. increased by 9.7%, from 11.3% to 12.4%.
Between 2018 and 2019 and 2020, use of illegal or misused prescription drugs among adults 25 and older in the U.S. decreased by 36%, from 5.8% to 3.7%.
And, now, here’s a picture of Jama Open Network first author Wilson M. Compton, in a Satanic purple tie:
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(JAMA Open Network First Author William C. Compton, in a Satanic purple tie)
I have included William’s photograph so that you could get a better idea of what a generational Satanist Freemason in a position of marginal influence looks like.
He figured that the rubes would never notice the coded visual imagery.
They are all related to one another through the maternal bloodline. They comprise between twenty and thirty percent of the populace, and are hiding in plain sight in every city, town and village on Earth. It’s how the few have controlled the many all the way back to Babylon, and before.
But they say that the hardest part of solving a problem is recognizing that you have one.
Don Croft used to say “Parasites fear exposure above all else”.
On February 15, 2023, usnews.com said “Amid Apparent Drop in Drug Overdose Deaths, States See Varied Success”.
Where author Chris Gilligan said “drop in drug overdose deaths” because, as a propagandist, he knows that seventy percent of readers only read the headlines, and his hedging generality goes a long way toward “compartmentalizing” awareness of the sudden, exponential decrease in overdose deaths which he is attempting to obfuscate. For the record, it’s 7.2%.
Chris said “apparent drop” to suggest that it had not, in fact, taken place at all. Then he said “see varied success” to walk it back a step from those states actually experiencing it.
Mr. Gilligan and the rest of his rotten ilk proudly refer to these sorts of devices as “tradecraft”.
The subhead reads “Drug overdose deaths appear to be ticking down, but unevenly, in the U.S.”
Where “appear to be” once again states that the sudden, quantum decrease in overdose deaths had not, in fact, taken place at all. Then Chris described the largest one year decrease in overdoses in history as “unevenly ticking down”.
The article goes on to say “According to provisional counts of reported deaths from the CDC’s National Vital Statistics System, more than 100,500 people in the United States died due to drug overdose in the 12-month period through September 2022, down 7.2% from the 12-month peak reached as of February 2022.”
Can you see how he wrote a tortuously-long passage about death prior to delivering the statistic?
Now let’s see how it reads when it’s written by an honest person:
From September 2021 to September 2022, drug overdoses in the United States decreased by 7.2%, from 108,037 to 100,500. U.S. News’ Chris Gilligan omitted the percentage, and referred to the sudden, quantum decrease in overdoses as an “apparent drop”, and that it was “unevenly ticking down”
And, now, here’s the picture that accompanies the U.S. News story that Chris wrote:
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(The caption reads: “Purple flags on display in front of Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, meant to represent the thousands of lives lost to drug overdoses.” The flags are Satanic purple, on a Satanic green grass background, and there’s a Greek human sacrifice temple in the background of the photo.)
Now here’s Chris Gilligan’s picture, in a Satanic purple sweatshirt, where he’s off-center to the left, to make his left eye the focal point of the image. As a bonus, he’s standing in front of a Greek human sacrifice temple:
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(Chris Gilligan’s picture, in a Satanic purple sweatshirt, standing in front of a Greek human sacrifice temple, just like the one in the photo immediately above. You’ve just been conditioned over Millennia not to notice.)
Can you see how the picture is off center to the left to give prominence to Chris’s left eye? That’s because, to followers of the Left-hand path like Chris, the left eye is the “eye of Will” or the “eye of Horus”.
But don’t take my word for it:
‘The right eye is the Eye of Ra and the left is the Eye of Horus’.”
From “Freemasonry - Religion And Belief - The 3rd Temple”
Facebook: “Welcome to the Left-Hand-Path-Network, where Satanism is not about worship, but it’s study.”
I have included Chris Gilligan’s photograph so that you could get a better idea of what a generational Satanist Freemason in a position of marginal influence looks like.
He figured that the rubes would never notice the coded visual imagery.
They are all related to one another through the maternal bloodline. They comprise between twenty and thirty percent of the populace, and are hiding in plain sight in every city, town and village on Earth. It’s how the few have controlled the many all the way back to Babylon, and before.
But they say that the hardest part of solving a problem is recognizing that you have one.
Don Croft used to say “Parasites fear exposure above all else”.
The words “mystery”, “baffled” and “puzzled” are memes, used, among numerous similar variants, whenever anyone in the wholly-coopted Political, Academic, Scientific and Media establishments wants to lie about, well, basically anything.
That’s why a New Yorker article from April 14, 2014 is entitled “What does the Parthenon mean?”
As a propagandist, author Daniel Mendelsohn knows that seventy percent of readers only read the headlines, and his hedging generality goes a long way toward “compartmentalizing” awareness of the fact that the Parthenon is a human sacrifice temple.
In journalistic parlance, Daniel “buried” this in the unsearchable photo caption immediately below:
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(Photo of the parthenon, with unsearchable caption: “A new book says that Greece’s most iconic temple commemorates human sacrifice.”)
Even more spectacularly, Daniel buried this twenty seven paragraphs even further down:
"For Connelly, the implication was electrifying. Scholars had long assumed that the Greek word parthenón—“the maiden chamber”—referred either to Athena the Virgin, the dedicatee of the building, or to the female servants of the goddess who may have been housed in the temple’s rear chamber. But after reading the Erechtheus fragments, a “stunned” Connelly became convinced that the five figures at the center of the Parthenon frieze were Erechtheus, Praxithea, and their three daughters, depicted just before the awful sacrifice—and that the Parthenon was itself the “earth tomb” mentioned in the play. Her idea has been rather sensationally garbled in some of the mainstream reviews of her book. “Was the Parthenon used as a site for virgin sacrifice?” the Daily Beast goggled.
Connelly’s sensational theory is, in fact, nearly two decades old. She first aired it in a 1996 scholarly article that has, over time, failed to persuade art historians and archeologists. In the book, she takes her case directly to the people. Like other popularizing tomes by specialists who, in promoting controversial theses, have done what amounts to an end-run around the academic establishment, this one has the defects of its virtues."
Spectacularly, from 430 B.C. to present, the aforementioned art historians and archeologists had managed to mostly memory-hole a play by Euripides called “Erechtheus.” Unfortunately for them, a copy surfaced when someone found an Egyptian mummy wrapped in papyrus sheets on which the play had been copied out.
Euripides’ play, first produced about a decade after the Parthenon was completed, dramatized a story of supreme importance to the Athenians: the tale of the three daughters of Erechtheus, who volunteered to be ritually sacrificed and consumed after an oracle declared that only the sacrifice of a royal virgin would guarantee victory for Athens in its war against a neighboring city. That ritual human sacrifice is depicted on the frieze in the parthenon, of the three daughters walking to their ritual sacrifice.
Nobody mentions that cannibalism that came after the sacrifice.
Yet, even a document from the time period clearly describing the “virgin sacrifice chamber” and a frieze depicting the three daughters on the way to their ritual sacrifice isn’t enough for some people.
That’s because the first rule of Politics is “deny, deny, deny”, and also because many or most readers will grasp virtually any straw, no matter how thin, to remain off the hook of personal responsibility.
The Greeks were practitioners of human sacrifice. That’s why an article from the U.K.'s Guardian from August 16, 2018, said “Skeletal remains ‘confirm ancient Greeks engaged in human sacrifice’”
Nobody mentions the cannibalism that came after the sacrifice.
The article goes on to say “Bones found on Mount Lykaion – where animal offerings to Zeus were also made – but some are urging caution over how to interpret the discovery”.
The article goes on to say "David Gilman Romano, professor of Greek archaeology at the University of Arizona, who participated in the dig on Mount Lykaion said classical writers linked the remote peak with human sacrifice. According to legend, a young boy would be sacrificed with animals, before the human and animal meat was cooked and eaten. “Several ancient literary sources mention rumours that human sacrifice took place at the altar [of Zeus, located on the mountain’s southern peak] but up until a few weeks ago there has been no trace whatsoever of human bones discovered at the site,” said Romano.
Hey, David mentioned the cannibalism!
The article goes on to say:
“Whether it’s a sacrifice or not, this is a sacrificial altar … so it’s not a place where you would bury an individual,” he said. “It’s not a cemetery.” He noted that the fact that the upper part of the skull was missing, while the body was laid among two lines of stones on an east-west axis, with stone slabs covering the pelvis was also interesting."
David Gilman Romano, professor of Greek archaeology at the University of Arizona questioned whether the young boy buried beneath a human sacrifice altar was, in fact, a human sacrifice, and then said that the fact that the “classical” Greeks had killed the boy, cooked him, and eaten his brain was “interesting”.
How long do you think that these people have left in power, now?
Please consider doing what you can to help speed the process.
Jeff Miller, Libertyville, IL, February 21, 2022
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