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The older I get the more I'm realizing "pre-history", "pre-civilisation" are very Western European Concepts. Like when the Conquistadors "civilized" mexico Or
by kbrannigan 4y ago
The older I get the more I'm realizing "pre-history", "pre-civilisation" are very Western European Concepts.
Like when the Conquistadors "civilized" mexico
Or when the Portuguese and French "civilized" West Africa.
- asdff 4y agoPlus when the bombs go off over the Amazon warehouses, who lives? You, who can follow a Hello Fresh recipe reasonably well, or the paleoindian who can flint knap all the tools they need to process their calories?
- tim333 4y agoEarly civilisation mostly kicked off around Egypt and China so not all that Western European.
- freejazz 4y agobut iPhone!
- tekkk 4y agoHere we go again. Just because people living in huts in the wilderness are seemingly happy doesnt mean you can rewrite history. No one is arguing colonialism isnt bad or cannibalism et cetera. Once you really dig deep into history you can see humans have been wiping off other nations and civilizations left and right. Assyrians, babylonians - all gone. One could make an assumption genocide and warfare are almost instinctive to us. What's left are few rocks standing, if even that, all ruined by our own hubris and violent nature.
- freejazz 4y agoYou completely missed their point. It was well beyond that they colonized places. It's that they believed they 'civilized' places.