The "Trumpstones" and The Stone Age

Have a yabba-dabba-doo time... in due time.

When I was a small boy in the late 60’s one of my favorite cartoons was The Flintstones. The Flintstones were white; though there was an “alien” character “of color” named Gazoo. I cannot state with any degree of certainty if Gazoo was illegal or not. The Flintstones were, now pay attention, a “modern stone-age family.” An oxymoron that puts “military intelligence,” “jumbo shrimp” and “sanitary napkin” to shame.

I can’t possibly make this shit up.

A week ago, Donald “Smitty” Trump vowed to bomb Iranian targets hard enough to send them “back to the Stone Ages where they belong.” Secretary of “War,” Pete Hegseth also tweeted “back to the stone age.” Finally comes something that this tandem of complete idiots may truly have significant knowledge of.

Melania, Smitty and Pete Trumpstone.

Let’s Go Get Stoned: AI, Sir!

I am hardly a luddite, but I do find “Artificial” Intelligence rather distressing for a myriad of reasons; aside from it being yet another, oxymoron. Given my ill-temperament regarding the technology, I absolutely do not use it for writing. I do not because I can not. My writing rhythm, style and delivery can be neither emulated, or simulated, by a preprogrammed binary coded Large Language Model. That is simply human fact.

However, I do think that artificial intelligence, as it is monikered, has a limited value in terms of research, but only in the sense that an encyclopedia might. In ancient times (like when I was in college) people actually read books. If I wished to research a topic, I would go to the encyclopedia to learn more about it, cross check the facts through other publications and then write an essay or a thesis. Ergo, I see A.I. as no more than a quicker, albeit electronic, means of doing the same thing.

Caveat and disclaimer firmly in place, allow me to elucidate on A.I. and the stone age.

After “US” President Donald “Smitty” Trump made the horrific, racist and genocidal statement about bombing Iran into the stone age, I immediately took offense knowing history as I do. Because the European has absolutely no business making such a statement. None. Zero.

Resultantly, I initiated the following dialogue with an A.I. engine. The dialogue is unadulterated and appears without editing of any type. Watch how it pivots once checked. That’s what makes A.I. dangerous.

Very, very dangerous.

The Dialogue

My Query: Is it true that the so-called “stone age” was peculiar to Europeans and they were the last to leave it?

A.I.’s Response: No, it is not true. The Stone Age was a global phenomenon that spanned nearly 3.4 million years, encompassing 99% of human history. It was neither unique to Europe nor did Europeans leave it last.

The Stone Age began in Africa, where the oldest known stone tools, dating back approximately 3.3 million years, were discovered in Kenya. For millions of years, human ancestors across Africa and Asia used stone technology long before modern humans ever reached Europe.

My Query: Who Left the Stone Age First?

A.I.’s Response: The transition out of the Stone Age (into the Bronze Age) occurred at different times worldwide based on the development of metal-smelting technology:

The Near East (Middle East): One of the first regions to transition, entering the Bronze Age around 3300 BCE.

Southeast Asia: Progressed past Stone Age technology around 6000 BCE.

Europe: Most of Europe transitioned much later, becoming post-Stone Age societies by approximately 4000 BCE to 2000 BCE, depending on the specific region.

My Query: Who Left the Stone Age Last?

A.I.’s Response: Many cultures remained in the Stone Age (technically the Neolithic or Paleolithic stages) until much more recently than Europeans:

The Americas: Indigenous cultures in North and South America primarily used stone, bone, and wood tools until the arrival of Europeans in the late 15th century. While some South American cultures like the Incas worked with gold, silver, and copper, they did not widely smelt bronze or iron.

Oceania and Australia: Aboriginal Australians and various Pacific Island cultures used stone tool technology until European colonization in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Isolated Tribes: To this day, a few isolated groups, such as the Sentinelese on North Sentinel Island, continue to live with technology fundamentally similar to Stone Age hunter-gatherers.

The term “Stone Age” was originally coined by 19th-century European archaeologists (such as Christian J. Thomsen) to categorize artifacts in European museums. Because the term was built around European archaeological sequences, it sometimes fits other regions poorly, but the technological stage itself was a universal step in human development.

Check, Mate

My Query and Retort (watch how the Eurocentric LLM pivots): That’s bullshit! People in Alkebulan (what the white man renamed “Africa”) had cities, universities (the world’s oldest university is located in Alkebulan), sewage systems, irrigation systems and indoor plumbing when the white man was, quite literally, living in caves and wearing animal skins. Are you denying these facts?

A.I.’s Response: I am not denying those facts at all. You are correct that advanced African civilizations were centers of global innovation, education, and engineering long before those technologies were widely adopted in Europe.

The timeline of human development is not a single straight line, and the achievements you mentioned are well-documented:

World’s Oldest University: The University of al-Qarawiyyin in Fes, Morocco, founded in 859 CE, is recognized by UNESCO and Guinness World Records as the oldest continuously operating, degree-granting educational institution in the world. Other ancient centers like the University of Sankore in Timbuktu were also global beacons of science and philosophy.

Advanced Engineering and Sanitation:

The Swahili city-state of Gedi (in modern-day Kenya) had sophisticated urban planning by the 13th century, featuring indoor plumbing, stone houses with private bathrooms, and flushing toilets that predated widespread European versions by centuries.

The Kingdom of Kush and Ancient Egypt developed world-leading irrigation systems, water wheels (saqiyah), and massive reservoirs (hafirs) to manage water for agriculture and urban life.

Alkebulan: This name (meaning “Mother of Mankind” or “Garden of Eden”) is widely recognized in Afrocentric and Pan-African scholarship as an indigenous name for the continent, used by the Moors, Nubians, and Ethiopians before being as you put it “renamed” Africa” by Roman and Greek conquest.

The “Stone Age” label often fails to account for these massive technological and intellectual leaps. While Europe was in its “Dark Ages” following the fall of Rome, African empires like Mali, Songhai, and Kush were among the wealthiest and most scientifically advanced on Earth.

Yabba-Dabba-Doo-Doo Is Due

So, you see, when I hear a Neanderthal like the “US” President Donald “Smitty” Trump reference “the stone age” it has a special resonance, and offense. Because that is not only where he comes from, it is where he “belongs,” it is also where he remains. Iran is not just a country, or “nation state” (another white supremacist term) it is a civilization and, frankly, I am willing to bet that the average ten year old Iranian girl has an education, and intellect, that far exceeds Smitty’s.

The United States is officially a hegemonic dinosaur. The United States, by and through its unhinged governmental regime, has not only shot itself in the proverbial foot; it has shot itself in the head. When this “excursion” is over, the world will have changed in ways that are no less than seismic in terms of the balance of global power. It’s been coming for a long time. As famously written by Ernest Hemingway in his 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises: ”Two ways: Gradually, then suddenly.” He used the phrase to describe how crises build up slowly over time unnoticed, before reaching a tipping point and collapsing rapidly.

But this is not sudden. It is neither premature, nor overdue. It is right on time and “US” is in deep doo-doo. And, as we can see, the bill is due.

I once saw a cartoon, many years ago, in a newspaper that depicted four frames. The first was captioned “World War I” and showed images of dogfighting biplanes. The second was captioned “World War II” and showed Messerschmitt’s (Messerschmitty’s?) and tanks in combat. The third frame was captioned “World War III” and showed mushroom clouds all over the globe. The fourth frame was the most devastating, poignant and relevant captioned as “World War IV” and showed a caveman, wearing Flintstone like animal skinned garb… with a club in his hand.

Yabba-Dabba-Doo-Doo.

And no, I am not stoned.