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The Iceman Inheritance: Prehistoric Sources of Western Man's Racism, Sexism and Aggression
the iceaan inheritance is the most glaring admission about the european's attempt to dominate the world through racism.there are a large number of books on this subject but the writers tend to hedge on the subject by inferring that in spite of the atrocities and the racism brought to this world by the caucasian race,they have given the world some order,some technology and arts and letters of lasting benefit.what the authors of these books do not take into consideration is that in spite of the contributions that benefit the world,europeans in their attempt at world domination created a disastrous climate for the world's people.
229 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1978
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Michael Anderson Bradley
13 books13 followersMichael Bradley is the nom de plume for Michael Anderson de Sackville, American by birth, Canadian citizen since the mid 1960s.
The famed researcher, author, amateur historian and anthropologist was born in Talladega, Alabama in 1944. He was educated at Agincourt Collegiate in 1963 and Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia from 1964-1967; He became a Canadian citizen on Dec. 1, 1965.
Nominated for the Nobel Prize (Biology) by Nobel Laureate, Konrad Lorenz in 1979; Bradley refused a special Doctoral degree program offered by Dalhousie University. Throughout the 1980s, he served as a lecturer at various institutions of higher learning, including: the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, Vanderbilt University, York University, Yale School of Divinity, and Kennedy-King College. (Chicago).
Bradley is a winner of the DeMille Writing Award (poetry) and Dennis Writing Award (prose) (both Dalhousie University). He was elevated to the rank of Knight of Malta in 1989 for activities in carrying medical supplies to remote villages in Central America in 1983 while conscripted to the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) in the design and manufacturing of five and ten meter boats for impoverished Caribbean fishermen.
Michael Bradley is the author of literally dozens of critically acclaimed books, including prior bestselling novels Imprint and The Mantouche Factor. A recognized expert on the Holy Grail, Bradley served as researcher for The Da Vinci Code movie and wrote the non-fiction trilogy on the Grail that concluded with the recently released Swords at Sunset (Manor House Publishing).
Prior non-fiction works include: The Cronos Complex, The Iceman Inheritance, Chosen People from the Caucasus, The Black African Discovery of America, Holy Grail Across the Atlantic and Grail Knights of North America.
The famed researcher, author, amateur historian and anthropologist was born in Talladega, Alabama in 1944. He was educated at Agincourt Collegiate in 1963 and Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia from 1964-1967; He became a Canadian citizen on Dec. 1, 1965.
Nominated for the Nobel Prize (Biology) by Nobel Laureate, Konrad Lorenz in 1979; Bradley refused a special Doctoral degree program offered by Dalhousie University. Throughout the 1980s, he served as a lecturer at various institutions of higher learning, including: the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, Vanderbilt University, York University, Yale School of Divinity, and Kennedy-King College. (Chicago).
Bradley is a winner of the DeMille Writing Award (poetry) and Dennis Writing Award (prose) (both Dalhousie University). He was elevated to the rank of Knight of Malta in 1989 for activities in carrying medical supplies to remote villages in Central America in 1983 while conscripted to the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) in the design and manufacturing of five and ten meter boats for impoverished Caribbean fishermen.
Michael Bradley is the author of literally dozens of critically acclaimed books, including prior bestselling novels Imprint and The Mantouche Factor. A recognized expert on the Holy Grail, Bradley served as researcher for The Da Vinci Code movie and wrote the non-fiction trilogy on the Grail that concluded with the recently released Swords at Sunset (Manor House Publishing).
Prior non-fiction works include: The Cronos Complex, The Iceman Inheritance, Chosen People from the Caucasus, The Black African Discovery of America, Holy Grail Across the Atlantic and Grail Knights of North America.
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October 14, 2009
All political correct institutions and media despise this book? Well, than it will get my encouraging attention. Is it also published in German? We need this book in the Fatherland!
August 3, 2013
Time is the enemy of the iceman. Mechanical time was invented out of the syllabus of European culture depend on a linear or secular concept.
European time is absolute and becomes oppressive and dominates over human life. The European ideal of mechanical time and progress is not a universal statement of meaning.
Anyone outside of the culture could not progress using European linear time. Unclear where they would begin at but very clear where they would end.
The mechanical culture ultimate goal “technology wise" is the control of time therefore time is the enemy of European progress.
Completely fantasizing and constantly waging a future in which Europeans concept rules
the past the present and the future in context of mechanical time.
These abstract goal do not literally exist. You must be trick into abstract future planning on a linear line of time.To Mass the fact mechanical time is a construct of the mind. And holds no bearing on human life but is anti human.
European time is absolute and becomes oppressive and dominates over human life. The European ideal of mechanical time and progress is not a universal statement of meaning.
Anyone outside of the culture could not progress using European linear time. Unclear where they would begin at but very clear where they would end.
The mechanical culture ultimate goal “technology wise" is the control of time therefore time is the enemy of European progress.
Completely fantasizing and constantly waging a future in which Europeans concept rules
the past the present and the future in context of mechanical time.
These abstract goal do not literally exist. You must be trick into abstract future planning on a linear line of time.To Mass the fact mechanical time is a construct of the mind. And holds no bearing on human life but is anti human.
July 13, 2017
I believe the book's overall premise is worthy of further investigation, though I believe that the aggressive behavior of Western man may have more to do with the climate in which he developed in (note that one can see the same aggression in many East Asians, Native North and South Americans, Middle Eastern people and even Africans) rather than residual Neanderthal DNA. After all, Neanderthals were not expansionist by nature--Homo Sapiens was and is.
More work has to be done to determine just what in the hell is wrong with our species--particularly that highly destructive and deranged Eurasian variety.
More work has to be done to determine just what in the hell is wrong with our species--particularly that highly destructive and deranged Eurasian variety.
November 1, 2015
The iceman inheritance gives the reader a clear entry into Europeans attempt to dominate the world through racism; a system of oppression used to keep a "race" below another. In this book the author focuses on how Caucasian (white) people brought forth the concept of racism . Michael Bradley explains the contrast in how "society" views the Caucasian race; explains how although the race "supposedly brought" some order, technology , and other benefits of society. But as well as their improvements to society their pursuit to dominate the world created a difficult environment for other races.
This book isn't a fictional book with characters and a plot , nor is it a biography . I enjoyed the book. I really liked this book because the author a white male was not bias in his explanations and documentation of his own race, instead of filtering the information about his race( which made them like pure savages ) he didn't "suagr coat" anything. Also as a African- American citizen in America were racism is very obvious and who is very curious about "white supremacy" and its creators. Michael Bradley answered many questions I had about the topic. After reading this book I adopted a new perspective on a topic of discussion were I was quite ignorant in.
This book isn't a fictional book with characters and a plot , nor is it a biography . I enjoyed the book. I really liked this book because the author a white male was not bias in his explanations and documentation of his own race, instead of filtering the information about his race( which made them like pure savages ) he didn't "suagr coat" anything. Also as a African- American citizen in America were racism is very obvious and who is very curious about "white supremacy" and its creators. Michael Bradley answered many questions I had about the topic. After reading this book I adopted a new perspective on a topic of discussion were I was quite ignorant in.
May 22, 2022
"it is not the mere existence of biological determinates which threatens us: it is our shame and denial of them which may over throw us."
I highly recommend this book as it is a solid mix of History philosophy and Theory.....Critical Theory
I highly recommend this book as it is a solid mix of History philosophy and Theory.....Critical Theory
October 9, 2022
I'm running out of time in the year to meet my reading goals so I've decided to read garbage to boost my numbers.
I came into this book already believing that white people are uniquely predisposed to violence and somehow this book's slipshod reasoning managed to unconvince me.
I came into this book already believing that white people are uniquely predisposed to violence and somehow this book's slipshod reasoning managed to unconvince me.
January 15, 2023
This book on Kindle is not functional!
This either needs to be fix or I want a refund! The book looks like a fax! The size of the page is about 25% of the normal size, and the pages are on the left side of the screen. Rotating my phone or iPad is useless! It’s really really bad. Don’t purchase this book through Kindle until this cluster is rectified! Take away the one star!
This either needs to be fix or I want a refund! The book looks like a fax! The size of the page is about 25% of the normal size, and the pages are on the left side of the screen. Rotating my phone or iPad is useless! It’s really really bad. Don’t purchase this book through Kindle until this cluster is rectified! Take away the one star!
July 21, 2021
More and more, we are learning that the Neanderthals were not the brutes that this book's theses require them to be. This book becomes more and more irrelevant with each new discovery.
August 4, 2024
Excellent book. Heres a short summary:
Bradley makes what at the time is an extraordinary claim: europeans are closely related to neanderthals, moreso than any other race. About 25 years later, through DNA testing, Bradley is absolved. He then uses this claim to argue the evolutionary journey for these neanderthals-turned-homosapiens was hindered by the freezing glacial temperatures of ancient europe in a way that other races didnt experience. One evolutionary hinderance he says is increased sexual dimorphism, between white men and women, leading those men and women to view each other as separate species. He uses this as a major reason for white patriarchy. Sex was less frequent and more based on a need than the natural human desire to satiate lust combined with its biological function, nor could they appreciate of the beauty of sex and the body. Women and men alike covered themselves from the cold, covering their sex! The sex and sexuality of the white woman became shrouded in mystery, pushing european women to be ashamed of their sex, to appear mostly asexual except when called to do otherwise by white men.
Increased levels of aggression is another biological (mal)adaptation coming from heightened competition between men in glacial temperatures fighting for scarce resources, becoming woven into cultural attitudes for conquest and dominance.
Theres more but im tired of typing lol, read this book!
Bradley makes what at the time is an extraordinary claim: europeans are closely related to neanderthals, moreso than any other race. About 25 years later, through DNA testing, Bradley is absolved. He then uses this claim to argue the evolutionary journey for these neanderthals-turned-homosapiens was hindered by the freezing glacial temperatures of ancient europe in a way that other races didnt experience. One evolutionary hinderance he says is increased sexual dimorphism, between white men and women, leading those men and women to view each other as separate species. He uses this as a major reason for white patriarchy. Sex was less frequent and more based on a need than the natural human desire to satiate lust combined with its biological function, nor could they appreciate of the beauty of sex and the body. Women and men alike covered themselves from the cold, covering their sex! The sex and sexuality of the white woman became shrouded in mystery, pushing european women to be ashamed of their sex, to appear mostly asexual except when called to do otherwise by white men.
Increased levels of aggression is another biological (mal)adaptation coming from heightened competition between men in glacial temperatures fighting for scarce resources, becoming woven into cultural attitudes for conquest and dominance.
Theres more but im tired of typing lol, read this book!
May 30, 2017
Plan to re-read this summer. An excellent source for explaining where they came from and what informed their manners.
November 30, 2018
This book helps to examine the roots of scientific racism.
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January 21, 2019I never got to read the book at all as your site had me site my read date and finish read date on the day I ordered the book and it never opened. I am sorely disappointed in your practices.
January 3, 2020
A really great book that breaks down why, to some degree, people of European decent act the way they act in regards to aggressive behavior over the centuries.
July 10, 2022
It was a very interesting read without reading the books and materials mentioned.
August 16, 2023
It's good but feels outdated. Much of the idea's have been, relatively recently, replaced due to advances in science, history, and race.
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July 7, 2008They say its not real anthropology, but I liked it and give it some credence.
July 30, 2008
OPEN YOUR THIRD EYE!!!!!
May 16, 2013
Amazing
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January 24, 2016It all makes sense!
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