[D-G] nomad treaty managment after Kurdish retreat

[Johnatan Petterson]

<< On the fringes and in the interstices of settlement are the nomads, who
maintained a much less stable and less easy relationship with the settled
population.
There were surely mountain tribes with a transhumant lifestyle like recent
Kurdish groups, but they would not have been forced into interaction with
the settled plains by climatic imperatives which bring the bedu north
seeking grazing in the summer, and their intrusions on the Mesopotamian
scene, such as the Gutian incursion, tend to have only a transient effect.
By contrast, the lifestyle of the desert nomads meant that they were ever
present, and there is no doubt that their tents were perceived as a menace
by the city dwellers.

" A tent dweller ... wind and rain ... , ..., who digs up truffles from the
hills, but does not know how to kneel; who eats raw meat; who has no house
during the days of his life, and is not buried on the day of his death"
(Myth of the wedding of Amurru: after Buccellati, 1966)

"Since that time the Amorites, a ravaging people, with the instinct of a
beast, ... the sheepfolds like wolves; a people who does not know grain "
(Inscription of Sun-Sin, after Civil 1967)

Although recent studies have emphasized that they were economically
dependent on the sedentary sector, engaged in 'enclosed nomadism', they
could not be controlled like other members of the state, since they were
not tied to a time or a place. First and foremost they were shephers. This
meant that they ranged far in search for grazing, and in times of friendly
relations the villagers and townfolks might employ the nomad to tend their
sheep (...)
They could also engage in trade in their own right, and at times the routes
between Mesopotamia and the west, especially that taking off from the Mari
region to reach Syria   via the oasis of Tadmor (classical Palmyra) , were
in the hands of the desert tribes. Their role here was no doubt largely to
provide the animals and local expertise to enable the journey to take
place: but the recent examples of Slubba, a non-bedu tribe, renowned
hunters living rather like tinkers , with metal-working and other less
material skills such as star-gazing and primitive medecine, shows that
other subsistence strategies were possible (///...°°° >>

p84 Early Mesopotamia (Society and economy at the dawn of history) by
J.N.Postgate

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Arnold Toynbee described the Nomad's efforts with dealing with wild animals
greater in comparison to the Settler 's effort in harnassing grains.
A Lesson is to be gained from the Nomad's strength at harnassaing wild
animals, which inspired the Nomad Treaty of DG in later times.
Postgate later describes demarcation not being precise as a often due cause
of dispute between nomads.
It seems from Postgate own accounts Nomads had a tendency in Mesopotamia to
become settlers.
it was said earlier here that there is perhaps no such distinction between
those smooth and those striated spaces.
Is there yet a distinction to be made between the Settler's lifestyle and
the Nomad one? is there a Nomad 's Opinion and a Settler's Opinion on the
following topic:
Recent development of world politics suggests American politics divide
their roles as nomads (hunters) and settlers (gatherers)
in as many roles as for instance Plato imagined happened on the Market
Place. Now is actually the Market Place smooth or striated, is there no
demarcation habits,
which could make it seen as slightly molecular? If one was led to weigh in
the essentialist narrative, one would associate a certain consistency level
of striatedness to a certain lifestyle.
I wonder if the US Executive this October the 7th, so abandons the Middle
East (really?) to the Foreign Actors, serves not the Philosophical Guattari
Deleuze nomadic point of view on Reality not better: indeed:
Whereas Nomads as shown by Postgate have a tendency to become Settlers, as
this very list suggests by its silence,
Some suggested today that Trump's orders to back away from Iran was not a
deception but followed from Opinion's fear of the backfire which Opinion
Real Estates had known after the Iraq invasion.
Today as well saw French President introduce in the Assembly the
immigration debate wherein Public Opinion was seen by most as a vital
ingredient in Communication:
how to manage the Communication so that Opinion stands essentially non -
molecular. (likewise Greta Turnberg is one vital nominated to Nobel Peace
Prize).

There could be some change in the groups of Opinion's shape(s) even if the
content, seems managable by the Nomad's Treaty in the same General Becoming
as before .


best,
Jonhatan Petterson