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lol that's definitely not what he's doing, way to miss the point unless you're actually arguing for toxic chemicals in the water that didn't exist more than 60

• nonrandomstring 3y ago
  > way to miss the point All of those commenters deconstructing my clumsy use of "Noble Savage" (I admit it's not quite the right thing) - are indeed (maybe wilfully) missing the point. A better expression might be the "Parochialism of the present". But that doesn't quite get to it. Nor even Thomas Hobbes' flowery and overblown conceit of past life as "Nasty, brutish and short". It's about a phenomenon of lionising a one dimensional idea of "progress" in a patently self-deceiving way.
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