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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.”
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.