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> In Afghanistan this was fundamentally impossible That's an odd idea. The people in Afghanistan aren't magically different -- instead, they're being oppressed
by cutemonster 3y ago
> In Afghanistan this was fundamentally impossible
That's an odd idea. The people in Afghanistan aren't magically different -- instead, they're being oppressed by a comparatively small group of violent uneducated men (the Talibans).
This is how it used to be:
https://www.google.com/search?q=afghanistan+before+1978&tbm=isch&source=lnms https://www.google.com/search?q=afghanistan+before+1978&tbm=...
That's more like in southern Europe.
But the Cold War and the US helping the Talibans take the power destroyed all that.
- philwelch 3y agoYou’re showing me pictures of people in cities. I’m not talking about the cities. I’m talking about the tribal populations in the countryside. And honestly, the tribal peoples aren’t the “magically different” ones. They’re closer to normal baseline human. We’re the WEIRD ones.
- cutemonster 3y agoOk (yes I did notice, I guess most photographers lived in the cities). I wonder how life was in the countryside -- maybe I can find something about that. > They’re closer to normal baseline human. We’re the WEIRD ones Yeah, it seems to me that tribal violence is much more natural and common than ... than what I could ever have believed 10 years ago