> Greeks saw the uncontrolled, erect phallus as a source of fearsome power. Reminds me of Shiva in India, which is not surprising since the classical world had

> Greeks saw the uncontrolled, erect phallus as a source of fearsome power. Reminds me of Shiva in India, which is not surprising since the classical world had much in common: they shared gods and stories freely without the curse of religion. That said it has always been quite amusing to see the obsession of the West to appropriate the classical Greco-Roman-Egyptian culture as if it were some sort of proto-Western entity. It quite obviously is not, except for anything other than PR purposes. The obsession in history writing has led to a state where everything good across the old world has been attributed to the Greeks (or at best to the Arabs cf. history of math) to the point that 'serious' people are trying today to gently move Buddha into being 'Greek' or at least 'Persian'. Indeed, like Jesus, Buddha can't not be white, and can't not be proto-Christian. Irony being that Christianity itself (like Islam) was so terrifyingly destructive that it literally wiped everything but the trace of that culture; Europe continues with this genocidal mania to this day (see all of USs wars). The only reason the Greeks are heroized today is because of their race, and because they were the only people still in Christendom at the dawn of renaissance (Persians were called whiter by the Greeks). Philosophy-wise and technology-wise, both the Indians and the Egyptians were superior in any case, and the crown-jewel of non-dualism is in (albeit waning) practice today, both in India and across Asia. Hell even the crown jewel of Geometry, that of Euclid, was found in Egypt, and the 'real' trigonometry only starts in India, yet both of them have been turned 'Greek' (aka white). The schema of racial obsession in history, and its continued application today, reminds us how hollow all this woke power-grab is.