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“ This stuff is such Noble Savage nonsense.” is not reasonable EDIT do the down voters wish to explain themselves?

relaxing 1y ago
They feel threatened by a non-western ontology that prioritizes different methods of information storage and transmission, ones that seem incompatible with their own tradition of the computer database. To the poster below: The knowledge and system of connections inside that knowledge, is traditional, and that tradition is carried forward into modern domain. Does that make sense? You should examine why you feel so quick to dismiss something as nonsense, especially when it seems to have been implemented successfully to the benefit of its users who do understand the system. You seem to be imagining something (the burning of libraries as the entire nation is forced to throw out Dewey?) that has no basis in reality. You clearly don’t understand what’s been implemented here, or library science in general, as your assertions are nonsense.
- phyalow 1y ago
  Huh? These are documents written (not a Maori technology), printed (not a Maori technology), bound into a book (not a Maori technology), placed in a library (not a Maori idea/concept). A Computer database is irrelent here, you seem to be picking out arbitrary words to try and sound smart? People arent threatend by this specific activity, less so the nonsense behind it. The threat is the corruption of useful and working systems to virtue signal for no benefit, whilst espousing their apparent (but on close examination lack of benefits). It is the social and intellectual degredation which is alarming. Creating a custom filing system is busy work simply put, changing to a propritory system lowers discoverability of information to an overwhelming majority of people initmately unfamiliar with "Maori gods" (99.9%), the same activity could be accomplished under standard tooling (Dewey), at lower cost, greater compatability and therefore benefit. It would be discoverable by default.
aydyn 1y ago
Calling this "noble savage" and stereotyping is very reasonable (also known as true). Its hilarious that the most succinct and useful summary gets flagged and hidden. Thats the smoothness of HN some times.

They feel threatened by a non-western ontology that prioritizes different methods of information storage and transmission, ones that seem incompatible with their own tradition of the computer database. To the poster below: The knowledge and system of connections inside that knowledge, is traditional, and that tradition is carried forward into modern domain. Does that make sense? You should examine why you feel so quick to dismiss something as nonsense, especially when it seems to have been implemented successfully to the benefit of its users who do understand the system. You seem to be imagining something (the burning of libraries as the entire nation is forced to throw out Dewey?) that has no basis in reality. You clearly don’t understand what’s been implemented here, or library science in general, as your assertions are nonsense.

phyalow 1y ago
Huh? These are documents written (not a Maori technology), printed (not a Maori technology), bound into a book (not a Maori technology), placed in a library (not a Maori idea/concept). A Computer database is irrelent here, you seem to be picking out arbitrary words to try and sound smart? People arent threatend by this specific activity, less so the nonsense behind it. The threat is the corruption of useful and working systems to virtue signal for no benefit, whilst espousing their apparent (but on close examination lack of benefits). It is the social and intellectual degredation which is alarming. Creating a custom filing system is busy work simply put, changing to a propritory system lowers discoverability of information to an overwhelming majority of people initmately unfamiliar with "Maori gods" (99.9%), the same activity could be accomplished under standard tooling (Dewey), at lower cost, greater compatability and therefore benefit. It would be discoverable by default.

aydyn 1y ago

Calling this "noble savage" and stereotyping is very reasonable (also known as true). Its hilarious that the most succinct and useful summary gets flagged and hidden. Thats the smoothness of HN some times.