Bliss and Servitude in Ancient Egypt.Just how much History repeats itself is astonishing.During the 500 years that lead up to the year of the hyenas  in 1090 BC in the reign of Ramesses the XI  the Egyptian people lived a life of relative bliss. It was communal living and the classes lived together happily and harmoniously, as is usually the case when the threat of starvation or homelessness is no where to be found. All the food was collected as offering to the gods. What the gods left was redistributed to the people, and the people were grateful and satisfied. The beauty of this type of system is that the peasant farmers had a good reason to hand over all their produce; To satisfy the Gods and make sure the sun and water maintained the bounty of food. The populace maintained constant interaction and every three or four days was a day of feasting, where livestock were brought in to be sacrificed to the gods, and the left overs shared among the people. It seems as though beer was a very common drink. Whether this was because clean water was unavailable or not I do not know. 

The year of the hyenas came and the years of cornucopia had come to an end. This lead to corruption from the highest places first, where the priests had been used to a certain level of living and wanted to maintain it. They began to strip the temples of their valuable metals. The villages became tomb robbers and there was a great deal of disharmony in Egypt.  The man in charge at this terrible time was The High Priest. He ruled Thebes, all the thousands of temple bureaucrats and everybody, with a relief showing his height was the same as the Pharaoh. Being a priest, he had no army, so when starvation hit the area, in the year of the hyenas, when there was really terrifying times in Thebes, he had no way of controlling the riots that took place. So the Viceroy of Nubia was brought in with his black troops, up the Nile and took control of Thebes, and liked it so much he stayed. Eight months into the year of the hyenas, the State collapsed, a time of terrible anarchy, or perhaps we should say lawlessness. Ten years of chaos ensued. King Herrihore, instigated a royal commission's to investigate the luting that took place during the year of the hyena. It was the end of Egypt. Although they carried on for another thousand years, the original flower was lost in the year of the hyena.

So it is today, where those in wall street are looting just to maintain the standard of living they have become used to in the good years.

Now that the peasants are no longer needed, as huge planting and reaping machines which are guided by satellite, reduce the States dependence on human labour the threat from below does not come early but late. The peasants used to be the early warning system. We no longer have such a warning system.