My history teacher says “geography is destiny” and made us watch guns germs and steel. I think bad empanada said this narrative promotes a lack of remorse for colonization because it’s characterized as inevitable. He didn’t explain why it was wrong though iirc. My teacher (who likes orwell) says it’s just material conditions. It could be argued that geography is created the original conditions that led to class society before class forced largely took over, though this could be taken to the extent of class being secondary. Anyone know about this?
Radically different is right! I’ve heard this argument before. I may even have been persuaded by it until I was about 20. But jfc does it not sound like the most backwards society imaginable? So advanced that it isn’t capable of making technological advances on its own. And when we add class back in to see that the ruling classes orchestrating all this are applying the same principles of theft and brutality to the working classes in order to advance militarily or even have a military. Did anyone say parasite?