I saw a drone picture today of an apparently un-contacted Amazon tribe’s settlement, and all I could think is why am I looking at this? For god’s sake, get the drone out of there and never send it back.
Also, that is an amazing factoid about the metric system.
I saw that photo, too. What the hell is wrong with us? Leave them alone. It's like that tribe on the island off India who shoot arrows at the helicopters we sent to "check" on them during covid. I mean hello, they don't have covid. They killed some missionary asshole who went there without permission. And all I could think was "Good."
Yes, I used to have heroes. Now I respect deeds. Because people who've done great things have been assholes to me. We've been venerating single leaders for many thousands of years. Not as long as we've been venerating our ancestors, but for ten thousand years in some cases. I think it is definitely cultural. I'm not qualified to make any sort of opinion, but let's say the First Nations, Australian and Americas, don't seem as beholden to this. They left Asia anywhere between 45 and 15 thousand years ago depending on what sites you recognize. Before "ranching" and large scale agriculture. It doesn't mean this opinion is even worthy of being a theory. But it makes you wonder if why the US is so authoritarian is because our mythology surrounds the cowboy, the armed knight of the Land Baron rancher, who makes his own law like a warlord.
I saw a drone picture today of an apparently un-contacted Amazon tribe’s settlement, and all I could think is why am I looking at this? For god’s sake, get the drone out of there and never send it back.
Also, that is an amazing factoid about the metric system.
I saw that photo, too. What the hell is wrong with us? Leave them alone. It's like that tribe on the island off India who shoot arrows at the helicopters we sent to "check" on them during covid. I mean hello, they don't have covid. They killed some missionary asshole who went there without permission. And all I could think was "Good."
Yes, I used to have heroes. Now I respect deeds. Because people who've done great things have been assholes to me. We've been venerating single leaders for many thousands of years. Not as long as we've been venerating our ancestors, but for ten thousand years in some cases. I think it is definitely cultural. I'm not qualified to make any sort of opinion, but let's say the First Nations, Australian and Americas, don't seem as beholden to this. They left Asia anywhere between 45 and 15 thousand years ago depending on what sites you recognize. Before "ranching" and large scale agriculture. It doesn't mean this opinion is even worthy of being a theory. But it makes you wonder if why the US is so authoritarian is because our mythology surrounds the cowboy, the armed knight of the Land Baron rancher, who makes his own law like a warlord.