Exterminate All the Brutes
2021
9/10
I finished watching this documentary series on MAX this afternoon while sitting at a loading dock.
I had stumbled upon it last year while surfing thru MAX and just got around to watching it this weekend.
It’s a 4 part series with each episode running about one hour each.
This docu-series could be viewed as a companion to the well known series “Guns, Germs and Steel”. The series does reference that title. What makes this series different is the origin of White dominance in world society.
It’s based on works by three authors and scholars — Sven Lindqvist's Exterminate All the Brutes, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, and Michel-Rolph Trouillot's Silencing the Past.
It covers European aggression that kicked in during the Crusades with Europeans not fighting for Christianity, but fighting for dominance over Muslims who totally controlled the Silk Road. From here the documentary goes thru the centuries of Europeans domination in the America’s and Africa.
It somewhat points out how natives of the America’s and Africa did not take Europeans seriously and did not see them as a threat. Even China, who created gun powder, basically took an isolationist approach to Europeans and never made an effort to use the technology to defend themselves from European aggression.
I’m not gonna go into it, but a lot of information is dropped that surprised me and that I was completely unaware of.
The documentary came out in 2021 and covers up to 2019. So events from the Pandemic to today is not covered. But after watching the series, you will have a different perspective on the Pandemic, the Migrant situation in the U.S. and Europe and other places, the Wars in Ukraine and Isreal and the hostilities thruout Africa and the Middle East. U.S. domestic policies going on today, you will quickly start having a different opinion.
There are a number of live re-enactments that take place that seem odd when you first start seeing them, they make sense as the series plays out. The series also does a fabulous job on using graphics to tell the story.
This is a must see series if you have not seen it. And it’s a series that everyone should watch. Including Whites along with groups like Jews, Latinos, Asians and others that are currently trying to get “Buddy/Buddy” with White society.
Synopsis
An exploration of the exploitative and genocidal aspects of European colonialism, from America to Africa, and its impact on society today.
