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The whole point is that saying mythsticism is equivalent to science is attacking the process not the people. I always get bristly when this sort of idealisati
by cycomanic 5y ago
The whole point is that saying mythsticism is equivalent to science is attacking the process not the people.
I always get bristly when this sort of idealisation of indigenous knowledge/systems/religion etc is used. The consequences of religion/mythsticism were/are almost always worse than science. In case of the Maori, they were used to justify genocide (the first thing tribes from the north island did when they acquired guns was to go south and wipe out other tribes for some perceived offence from the far past).
- ncmncm 5y agoOnly two weeks after Maori first heard from the British there were people on Chatham Island, 600 mi to the east, they sailed out and exterminated them. It seems likely the same thing happened to the Marquesans who first discovered Hawai'i, once people from Fiji or Samoa or someplace arrived. The latter's descendants still talk about "menehunes", small people who come out only at night. Brits, not long after, hunted Tasmanians for sport.