
Forgotten Pottage
The Blindboy Podcast
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The Crucifix Is a Warning, Don't Folk With Us
In primitive societies, the local powerful person would cut eur enemies foken heads off and leave on a pole as a warning. The spectacle of utter violence is used to maintain power and obedience. Here's a painting of someone with nails driven through their folken hands and blood coming from their head. It is a big warning, don't folk with us. So that one way that art was viewed as right. The church used it as a way to maintain power,. let people know who was in power, who were in power, and not to falk with em. This is what it did for them. Also by the time of the industrial revolution, where you have now not just kings
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