Re: [Pen-l] Excellent article on Jared Diamond and the New Yorker

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Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Excellent article on Jared Diamond and the New Yorker
From: raghu <mraghu01@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 14:41:01 -0700
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On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx> 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.


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