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This was actually a pretty standard way of recording the number killed in battle. You can see in the Libyan War inscriptions for Merneptah discussion of how they took wheelbarrows of dicks of the uncircumcised, and the more unusual part is the mention of taking the hands instead from the sea peoples who were "without horns" (generally understood to have meant they were without foreskins).
It's good to be the king.
Always be hustling.
And they called the indians savage for taking scalps, smh.
I mean, to be fair, this was 3,000 years before that.
Though not like hyperviolence doesn't happen anymore, even in 'civilized' militaries.
No, you see it's OK if you shoot them from a mile away while looking through a filter that makes people into white silhouettes.
You're only a savage if you kill women and children up close.
I dunno. I used to look at a town in France where the neighbors came in, pillaged, raped, and killed such that bodies were left dismembered for ages as this little microcosm example of how far the world had come from the senseless barbarism of antiquity.
But literally just a few days ago we had mass killings, rapes, and dismemberment from one group going in and attacking their neighbors as brutally as they could. And that was on top of having already been rather upset after reading just months before about Russians torturing POWs by feeding barb wire up their rectums to slowly pull it out.
We still seem to be doing our best to be as fucked up as possible.
It's just that the parts of society that aren't fucked up have arguably come a much longer way than the parts of society not fucked up in antiquity. Which is pretty much the only bright side I can see anymore.
I think the parts of society that you are referring to that aren't fucked up have just been able to distance themselves from reality- the upper middle class has the luxury of being unaware of everyday struggles and they seldom have opinions other than those shared by those who hold power. The Russians you refer to are terrible people but they've been indoctrinated with garbage. My point is that many people's circumstances are just that- circumstances.