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when you visit or live among people or parts of society that that essentially never "modernized" in any meaningful way, the only thing they really need is bette
by skrtskrt 2y ago
when you visit or live among people or parts of society that that essentially never "modernized" in any meaningful way, the only thing they really need is better healthcare.
the rest is a load of crap that is just solving problems created by industrialization and modernization
- megaman821 2y agoAre you talking about lost Amazon tribes? Most places I have visited people have seen real quality of life improvements by having clean water, refrigeration, sewage systems and access to the internet.
- szundi 2y agoYeah yeah, but it’s so romantic that they use bamboo sticks for hunting and killing each other with poisoned arrows while dying of worm infections and shit
- fuzztester 2y agob-b-but ... 2000 lb bombs, ar-15s, drones, guided missiles, f-15s, heavy artillery are more romantic! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F-15_Eagle https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F-15_Eagle next up, a total lovefest, icbms firing thermonuclear bombs?
- Kerb_ 2y agoCivilization, I'll stay right here
- fuzztester 2y agoCall Gandhi. google Gandhi Western civilization good idea
- skrtskrt 2y agothank you for reminding me why I don't comment on Hacker News much. 1. Completely misrepresent someone else's perspective 2. Always use an industrialized western perspective as a synonym for what is unequivocally good, without any inspection or consideration. Disregard anything else. 3. Worship at the altar of the information technology industry
- vasco 2y ago> Always use an industrialized western perspective Who do you think has driven modern medicine and how do you get advanced healthcare without industrialization?
- throwaway2037 2y agoThis is a good point. And, most of those require civil engineers to accomplish. It's very hard to do that if you don't have a writing system, and, hence, literacy. Pre-literate societies struggle to build up scientific and mathematical knowledge because all knowledge transfer is oral.
- skrtskrt 2y agoIndustrialization is like the 1800s-1900s. Not "pre-literacy".