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the ruins of the city of lagash are on the right side of the image

Lagash actually sounds like a name of an ancient city. Umma, like what is that, was it founded by monosyllabic cavemen?

>>810099
Makes sense for one of man's first cities

>>810036
<This Urukagina, who assumes the office of Lugal of Lagash at a time when his southern neighbors have already adorned the banks of the Nile with the first pyramids, may not be the first reformer. He’s the first documented reformer. He is the first of many who will put the wellbeing of the entire worm ahead of the wellbeing of a segment. He can see that the greedy profit-seekers, who are a mere section of the whole, have been distorting the cadavers coherence, its very ability to move, by eating up all its entrails. He proclaims that the vipers “shall not gather fruit in the poor man’s garden,” they shall not reduce Sumerians to zeks.

<By placing the welfare of the entire worm above that of its swelled segment, this reforming Lugal, like many of his liberal successors, unleashes forces which overwhelm him. Relying on his memory of earlier stages of the worm’s existence, he presumes to know the best, or most just, arrangement of the worm’s segments.

<The first Urlugal presumed to know the hierarchy of the gods and got away with his presumption because the gods were already weak and dying.

<Urukagina doesn’t get away, because the segment he attacks, although by definition dead, is not weak. Retribution takes the form of an invasion from Umma. Urukagina is swept out of office by Lugalzaggizi of Umma. Urukagina is killed, so are his liberal Ensis and most of their zeks, and Lagash is razed to the ground.

• Against His-Story, Against Leviathan by Fredy Perlman
  
  

Looks like the reformers having been eating shit since the start. Well they all got conquered by Sargon anyway.