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Aristotle philosophy of natural slavery and the Venetian oligarchy.
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Venice's manipulative powers, which seemed to justify much of its deeds, had become so 'refined' that it not only managed to make all of Europe pay for its ventures, but it also destroyed the budding spiritual and cultural revival of Europe as a whole. Through the services of a certain Gasparo Contarini as the guiding hand behind the Council of Trend that paved the way for Contarini's appointment to negotiate with the Lutherans at Regensburg, the Venetians were able to infiltrate and indirectly set up and control the Reformation that was meant to revitalize Christianity. The man was so slick, that even while executed the war on the Reformation through the official channels of the reform commission for the Council of Trent, the so-called Counter-Reformation, he managed somehow to declare his Lutheran beliefs and have them accepted by the Lutherans to such a degree that doors were opened for him. Then, once the doors were open, in typical Venetian fashion, he created an Aristotelian faction within the church that had the predictable consequences.
The Venetian Aristotelianism had developed into a poisonous hatred or amplified disdain for any concept related to a universal God and universal human dignity, the slightest bit of which could be a threat to its oligarchic foundation. Christianity was developing into an enormous threat. It had to be dealt with, especially after the threat had become uncomfortably real.
The universality of God and the universal dignity of man, is what Plato represented, what Christ Jesus demonstrated beyond measure, what Nicolas of Cusa had brought back into focus and convinced Pope Pious II to accept, what had been the driving force of the Renaissance, the great revival of art, learning, and scientific thinking. This is also what the Council of Florence represented, and what got the Venetians nearly defeated in the year 1509 by the League of Cambrai which represented the total combined power of Western Europe set up in alliance for one single cause, to rid the world of Venice. The fact that such a grand alliance could be formed against a single foe, speaks volumes of the mental cancer that came out of that city.
The Venetian forces were destroyed at the battle of Agnadello. The defeat was total. But even while France was poised to invade the islands of Venice, the papacy relented and called off the final act of defeat. 'Diplomacy' eventually caused the alliance of forces to fall apart. Venice, the slave trader of Europe, was saved from destruction, tragically. Its survival would proof fatal for the budding western civilization, as Venice set out to destroy Christianity in reprisal. Gasparo Contarini and a certain Paolo Sapri were key players in this destruction.
Venice manipulated both the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation, infiltrated the establishments, escalating tensions from within throughout all the centers of Europe. This subversive intervention lead into a series of wars that finally drowned the Golden Renaissance in rivers of blood culminating into the Thirty Years' War. The war is said to have been the most horrible military episode in western history, superseded only in the twentieth century. The wanton destruction, violent crimes, constant ravishing, breeding famine and pestilence, left three quarters of the population dead in some areas, and the economies of entire nations completely destroyed and the land reduced to near dessert conditions.
This man-created hell rivalled the Black Death of 1348 in veracity, which scholars belief reduced the world's population in half. Even in this, Venice may have played a role in the background, as many of the regions through which the plague broke into Europe were ravished economically. Severely depressed human conditions may have set the stage for the literal explosion of the plaque.
The Venetian Aristotelian ideology was never defeated. It still lives in the background in European and American structures of oligarchic power, with its strongest concentration existing possibly in England which was infiltrated by Venice over a two hundred year period beginning in 16th century under King Henry VIII. With England as a powerful host, which it politically controlled, the new Venetian empire in the north developed itself in the 18th century into the biggest slave merchant the world has ever known. More than half of the global slave trade was carried out in British ships which transported upwards to 38,000 slaves a year out of Africa to its numerous colonies around the world. Later, the British Empire also became the largest dope merchant of the world, through the operation of the British East India Company and its foreign policy of open warfare that forced the emperor of China to open his county to the British importation of Opium, that physically and spiritually destroyed the strength of the nation from within.
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