On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > Louis Proyect wrote: >> http://savageminds.org/2009/05/11/big-conservation-in-papua-new-guinea-jared-diamond%E2%80%99s-new-yorker-article-reflects-a-larger-problem/ >
Another quote from the article: "Thinking of one culture as primitive and ours as advanced often subtly translates into a bias of our own superiority, which subconsciously affects how we relate to these supposedly primitive cultures." While acknowledging the truth of this statement, is it nevertheless not true that industrial societies are orders of magnitude bigger, more interconnected and more complex than tribal cultures? In the same way that a large factory is more complex than a garage workshop. It seems to me that the danger lies in translating "more complex" into "superior" or "better". -raghu. -- I like to leave messages *before* the beep. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
