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I am always wonder how would these civilizations would be today if they left to grow alone, without the European affection and love. Like we couldn't even have
by melenaos 6y ago
I am always wonder how would these civilizations would be today if they left to grow alone, without the European affection and love. Like we couldn't even have access to them until we have satellite internet, human rights, European committee, global journalism, things that could hold the 'explorers' from committing civilization crimes and for completely vanish exotic cultures.
What it would be like to have a conversation with a native american about their land and their forest, how far would Aztecs would reach, what relegion does the Rapa Nui people really had, and so many wonderful things we could get from people of Africa and all over the world.
Even then, their ground would be taken, their villages would be burned down and nobody would know. Is it possible to leave such a big continent to people without guns? Is it possible to leave them live the natural life they choose to live, without forcing them to settle in a house like our ancestors did 12.000 year before? And because of that my back hurts, my body is stiff, I have anxiety for virtual things and my connection with the nature is broken.
But no more cultures left to modernize in Earth, let's find another planet to help.
- cheesecracker 6y agoYou may enjoy reading "The World Until Yesterday" by Jared Diamond.
- melenaos 6y agoGreat! Thank you for your suggestion. I have added to the readlist
- sbierwagen 6y ago>I am always wonder how would these civilizations would be today if they left to grow alone, There are a few uncontacted peoples left. Notoriously, the Sentinelese kill anyone who try to land on their island. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontacted_peoples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontacted_peoples Left alone, they appear to muddle along like any other hunter-gatherer tribe would: starving often, dying young, making no "progress" as we would call it. The native state of humanity without technology is certainly different from our life, I hesitate to call it "better".
- melenaos 6y agoI have read about this tribe, they kill every foreigner, this is why they keep their closed community like that. I wouldn't compare them to the native tribes of America, if they did the same they might have not been brutally murdered themselves.
- 082349872349872 6y agoThe job of Progressor[1] in the Strugatsky Brothers' Noon Universe undergoes a shift over the course of the series. In the initial stories pretty heavy intervention is seen as beneficial. By the final stories, even light intervention has its ambiguities. (anyone else see a parallel between Надежда from Жук в муравейнике and reactions to coronavirus measures?) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noon_Universe#Description https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noon_Universe#Description
- roter 6y agoIf only they had made a TV show about this [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Directive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Directive
- melenaos 6y agoCool! Haven't seen it!