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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.
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
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.