My first argument will be the one that I just mentioned and the one that actually got me to write the bread and butter of this rant. Brownie has a very anti-Israeli attitude. Now, in times like these, there are many who dislike Israel because of what they are doing to the Palestinians, but this show was made in the 70's or 80's, and from the looks of things, Brownie doesn't like them one bit. The first installment of We and this World I ever saw involved a discussion about Ancient Egyptian history. Blackie pretty much let's Brownie talk throughtout the whole program (these shows are about half an hour each) and Brownie delivers an interesting form of rhetoric in a way that really makes you think. Perhaps Blackie expected him to get to carried away and perhaps he'd make a fool of himself. Now we will never know.
Before I go off the rails again, I'll get straight to the point. Brownie talks about the idea of a Pharoah, the famous ruler of Egypt in ancient times. Now, you and I know that there was only one Pharoah ruling Egypt at one particular time. But Brownie refutes this. He claims that Egypt was ruled by many Pharoahs. Apparently, the Pharoah wasn't the overall ruler of Egypt, but was only the leader of a tribe in a select part of Egypt. Now why would Brownie say such as a ground breaking claim? Well, he belives that the idea of a singular Pharoah was to make the Torah (a sacred texts for Jews) seems accurate when it described the plight of Moses and the Israelites; when they fled Egypt from slavery. Now this claim not only attacks Judaism, but also Christianity. Of course, he has no source to back up his claim. Apparently you're supposed to believe him just because he's an Arab talking about an Arab country (why would an Israeli person know so much about an Arab country?).
Next he attacks Ancient Greece, another stepping stone to civilisation. Brownie claims that it wasn't the Greeks themselves that made Ancient Greece powerful, it was the Syrians themselves. How? Well he claims that Ancient Greece got powerful since the Syrians found gold in Greece. The Greeks couldn't mine the gold because they were cave people and couldn't even use their own land. Syria exploited them. Of course, it pretty much ends there. He makes no mention about how Syria should have been powerful rather than Greece. How did Ancient Greece get so powerful anyway?
However, Brownie makes a flat out contradiction a couple of episodes later. He claims that Ancient Greece (both its language and culture) is really a carbon copy of Syria (the Phonecians). Now this argument makes no sense. Before he had that the Greeks were uncivilised and primitive (they could find the gold remember?). So did this leave Syria in a similar state? No, of course not, according to Brownie. How could Syria be crucial to the world's progress if it was like that? Then that must mean that Syria was just as powerful as Greece. Yes, it was. Hence Greece was an exact mirror image of Syria. Of course, he begs the question (uses his actual conclusion as an argument) .......
