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#9 – Sacrifice & Oppression at the Dawn of Tyranny

The Martyr Made Podcast

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A New Wrinkle, I Never Saw It Before

The aztecs were a people, in their adolescence, powerful, aggressive, but inwardly uncertain of themselves. Unmanaged anxiety turns into panic, if the anxiety discharge, and panic leads to violence. I've long thought that the world historical greatness of any mythology is determined by whether it can face up to the incomprehensible, arbitrariness of the universe without flinching.

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