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"She believes anxieties about the Internet are inflated, and asserts that most tribespeople “wanted and deserved” access to the World Wide Web.' "
"Still, some officials in Brazil have criticized the rollout to the remote communities, saying special cultures and customs could now be lost forever. "
“This is called ethnocentrism,” Dutra said of such critiques.
“The white man thinking they know what’s best.”
I get really sick of the noble savage idea. Most cultures have a learning curve for new technology. They will screw up before they get better. Sort of like a 12 year old in puberty.
So then the academics say we shouldn't let them have it at all. Their primitive ways are speciali, while mine are not. It's deifying a false notion of existence, then thrusting it on people who don't want it.
This FUCKING right here. They will worship the ground walked on by some backwards culture then criticize their neighbors for "regressive old fashioned ideas that have no place in modern society." Muzzie good, white man bad.
In star trek tng during one ofnthe first contact episodes picard says that to instantly transform a society with technology would be harmful and destructive and its why they don't uplift primative civilizations and instead wait until they achieve warp and even then still leave it to them to work out most of the other stuff
Go look at Africa and how fucked up they are because we tried to give them technology that was thousands of years beyond their mud huts
The technology certainly didn't help, but looking at some of the stuff that existed there before colonization—and the fact that they were in mud huts at all—and I would say they would be fucked up even if we had never done anything. Maybe in a slightly different way, but fucked up. The French ending Dahomey, for example, was probably for the best.
They'd still be fucked up, but their populations wouldn't be inflated far beyond what they're capable of sustaining. People who can't maintain anything beyond the neolithic should be left to exist with neolithic population levels, by giving them the means of expanding their population levels to a modern scale we inadvertently placed them in a Malthusian trap that only subsidy from outside can save them from.
Ftr I don't think that Malthusian logic applies in an absolute sense, any properly functioning civilization can ignore that stuff, but once civilization breaks down you suddenly have the problem of there simply being too many mouths to feed in comparison to the capacity to produce food.
It's one of the problems with the Australian aboriginals today. Yes it's true they are typically very low IQ and couldn't advance into the stone age in 5000 years on their own, but the codependent relationship with White Peoples has set them back far worse than what welfare did to the blacks in America. They were an evolutionary dead end and should have either been left alone like zoo animals, 100% integrated, or 100% genocided. Instead they were treated half the time like insects to be exterminated, and half the time like monkeys wearing suits living among Men, propped up as a success of modern science. A lot of them were forcefully integrated with all tribal history and family bonds wiped out. It worked for some of the higher IQ subjects who managed to breed with settlers, but the rest had no choice but to live like rootless gypsies spawning offspring straight out of Lord of the Flies or Mad Max. Then we gave them free shit for life and stopped prosecuting them for barbaric behavior that is unheard of in civilized societies.
Oh well they'll be put in charge of Australia in a few years so that should solve things.
Just thousands? If we could magically isolate sub-Saharan Africa and fastforward 10,000 years, I still don't think they'd invent cellphones and airplanes. 5,000 years ago, Ancient Egypt existed right next door with all the ancient era tech, and their nearby African neighbors still didn't figure out the wheel or buildings before colonization.
Indonesians made it to Madagascar before Africans did.
They can BARELY do agriculture for crying out loud! They're many many thousands of years behind.
It's hilarious how many leftists absolutely hate the concept of the Prime Directive, no matter how many reasonable points are made to justify such a concept.
As per usual, they're incapable of trying to fathom what kind of consequences might play out 4-5 moves ahead.
The problem is that academia knows this and doesn’t care. They will always push the noble savage lies because it’s a way to displace western society. This is the same as “intersectionality” that was disproven years ago, the tabula rasa that was disproven years ago, on and on. The founding myths of the modern zeitgeist rely on being able to turn a man into a woman, an aboriginal into a rocket scientist, and a woman into a warrior. This is why DEI was so necessary to them, why feminism and “girl bosses” are necessary. They can’t accept inherent differences in people because that would completely shatter their entire life’s purpose.
Why do women utter such nonsense?
A significant percentage of them are so coddled that mental developement stops on adolescence. They're essentially children with a massive sense of entitlement and little capacity for logic.
As long as they just say retarded shit on a small scale like this, I say let them go wild.
Lack of proper education by the men in their lives refraining from telling them that they're stupid and should shut up.
I respect the idea for jungle savages to remain jungle savages and not be burdened by clown world. I think the idea they'll lose themselves in porn is true because it already happened to us.
I've long been an advocate for having places in the world that are off the grid. And not just in the homesteading sense, but really, truly disconnected from the rest of the modern world. Sane people need places where the long arm of technology cannot reach.
the sentinelese are our only hope
The rest of us can remain insane here. They're the backup save file.
Special cultures and communities.
Picking fruit off the ground, eating human flesh and shitting in the river.
Such special much culture.
Just some notes for those wondering how bad these points can be.
Fruit only tends to fall after it has started to rot.
This has repeatedly led to prion diseases like kuru.
This is the most obvious one, do it in the wrong place, ie upriver, and at worse you contaminate your drinking supply, at best you contaminate your bathing and washing areas.
"If I poo by hut, hut smell and get flies. If I poo in river, river god carry poo away"
Like infectious diseases, you need to have an immune system developed to handle the Internet.
That includes blocking people, knowing when to quit and not sharing everything online.
Seeing this narrative get flipped over a few years with the introduction of social media was like watching society kill itself in fast forward.
They never stood a chance
Most "social media" (formulated brainrot) is a pale imitation of academics, industry professionals, and nerd side of pre-2008 internet. The OLPC project indeed showed that the noble-savage is largely a myth. I still think a walled-garden is suitable for a rural tribe that has to have electricity and telecommunications subsidized. Really, I have higher expectations for newcomers than formulated brainrot.
Typically we do know what’s best, that’s why I’m sitting in AC and you’re fishing bugs out of trees for dinner
Now that they have internet, how long will it be before the first tribe tranny?
Now instead of taking scalps, tribesmen are taking identities. They're getting exploited in trades, but now with Bored Ape NFT's.
Word on the street was most of this was just an Anti-Elon hitpiece from the Brazillian government because he refused to ban their political rivals. Considering how it hits every single anti-Internet talking point and a shit ton of Woke ones too, I give the theory some credence.
Its not just American media that lies and blatantly misrepresents reality to serve a narrative.
I wonder what the top category they search for.
Keeping the fruits of modern technology from primitives is ALSO a form of "Daddy Knows Best" thinking.
Why do they want to keep them at the basal human "wild animal" level?
Also: These are the same types of dingelpusses that think an advanced "race" of "alien" should be more than happy to trade tech and gametes with humans ...
"tribespeople"