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Screw that money. I’d rather have the old Internet vibe back.
by selfhoster11 4y ago
Screw that money. I’d rather have the old Internet vibe back.
- ChrisMarshallNY 4y agoI do think that money has been extremely corrosive to Internet culture, but it has also been a huge motivator. It’s kind of like, in the Nineteenth Century, large parts of the world were still unexplored, so authors like H. Rider Haggard and Arthur Conan Doyle, could write books like King Solomon’s Mines, or The Lost World, and people could sort of believe “it could happen.” These days, we know our world much better. We can call up satellite views of Base Camp, on Mt. Everest. But we are now looking much farther for “it could happen.”
- ftyers 4y ago
- lupire 4y agoNo one in the world, "white" or not, had access to documentation of the whole world. Indigenous people in South America could imagine what the land across the sea or over the mountain might be.
- ChrisMarshallNY 4y agoUnexplored by our current culture. I suspect we were just as mysterious to the Acapa, as they were, to us. Not everything needs to be turned into an opportunity to point out bias, because that’s a neverending quest (to be human, is to be biased). The British, in those days, were about as bad as you can get. But the Carthaginians were probably every bit as bad, to their neighbors, as were the 19th-century colonial powers. Basic human behavior. I’ve learned that it’s a waste of time, going around, trying to convince others to see things, our way. I find that it’s always best to lead by example.
- anthk 4y agoIberian here. The Aztecs were scary compared to the contemporary Hispanics. So did the ancient Celtic/Iberian or Celtiberian tribes.
- ChrisMarshallNY 4y agoJust looked at what I wrote. Thanks fat finger/autocorrect! I don't even know what "Acapa" means! I meant Apache.