YOU are a Paleo Pioneer- NOT an Immigrant! PaleoJay's Smoothie Cafe podcast

Ancient paleo tribes, wandering through Europe- they would have never allowed tribespeople from elsewhere- the other- to come and sit about their campfire with them and their tribesmen and women. To take their laboriously hunted meats and fish, their gathered vegetables- they would have fought rather to the death than give up their land and what they had built! For they were the earliest of pioneers- making and taking what they could from the land to survive and thrive- for their own people and tribe.Imagine: you are living many thousands of years ago in just such a tribe. You have a good life, after centuries of hard, hard work and suffering. You have even developed free elections of your own chiefs, to organize you into warrior bands to protect what you have built. Because, although you are a stone-age cave person, you are not stupid.Then, an evil chief from within your land declares himself a “king”. Or a tyrant of any sort, whatever the name. Many suspect he is insane, but he is powerful and determined. He insists that you welcome all strangers that come against you, even your hereditary enemies from the cannibal tribe in the next valley that you have fought for eons, and not only welcome them, but to give them many of your own huts and caves, and even labor hunting for them, giving 1/2 of what you gain to them and their tribes! Soon, there are nearly as many of the cannibal tribe within your stone walls as without! Many of your children wind up disappearing in the night, and it is known that they are often found in the cannibal tribes cooking pots! Half of your tribe is up in arms, ready to expel these invaders, but the evil king that has mesmerized and fooled many of your fellow tribesmen and women insists that you are just racist, which is just a new term he has made up for the others, which is an evolutionary response that has kept our species safe for eons. Perhaps the king has made a pact with the cannibals, simply to replace his own race in order to be an absolute ruler over these new cannibal folk, who to him are totally subservient. Some suspect he has connived with the cannibals to put strange herbs into the drinking water of his own tribe, making many of them so deluded and naive that they believe somehow that his obvious ruination of their entire tribe and city is somehow ‘only fair’, and so approved of by the gods. Especially the new, Serpent god of the cannibals that he has forced the tribe to worship, as the equal traditional Gods of the Sun and Moon that your tribe has traditionally worshipped.The old heavenly gods told us that men and women were equal under them, and that reason and light, brotherly love and justice were to be valued. The new serpent god, beside cannibalism and human sacrifice, champions men over women, and people in general as far beneath both the evil King and his newly appointed court. Debate is declared to be illegal, and punishable by death. Ultimately, the old gods are banished, and the stone doors of the city are flung wide, allowing all of the evil tribes nearby complete entry. Women are attacked openly in the street, and if any of the original tribe defend them, they are sacrificed to the great Serpent. This early civilization is finished.Now let’s look at a modern parallel:For the first few centuries of America, those who came over did so to carve out a place on a new continent, a place that they could support themselves and their families and posterity in. They had no expectation that it would in any way be easy, or that anything at all would be given to them. They knew they had to struggle, work unbelievably hard, and suffer privations beyond anything that they might have had to suffer at home- but they knew that in the end, they would be free!FREE or oppressive government, free to worship their own God as they saw fit. Originally, a big part of the huge effort to

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