Colonization was not all bad. Yes, there was a lot of bad things which happenned during these times and numerous crimes but it definitely helped to bring on civilization to some of these countries.
"Civilization."
The Inquisition.
The Holocaust.
Etc.
Do you really think that the inhabitants of any continent on earth are happier now than they were 1000 years ago?
It's hard to believe that there really are people who believe things like this, but the reality is there are probably millions - thanks to our education system.
You'd probably have a mental breakdown if you had to go without your smartphone for a day.
I knew some of the people who made this film (we were in grad school at the same time) and saw some of the early cuts.
It's important to understand that this kind of fighting is, in effect, ritual. If the Dani wanted serious bloodshed, they could have had it (and, later on in Dead Birds (the film's title)) we do see the results of an ambush of a single opponent.
If you're looking for deadly high-body-count warfare, this is about as far from that as can be imagined. In my own fieldwork in Papua New Guinea I became close to men who had participated in tribal fighting, where, again, the body count from a memorable engagement would be one or two dead.
In modern times, with modern weapons, people like the Dani (and their neighbors across the border) do have fighting and high casualty counts, because they now have automatic and semi-automatic rifles. But not in 1964 and earlier.
This is how humans evolved to have wars. Everyone rages and postures and runs around and throws the occasional arrow or spear. Only as many are killed or wounded as necessary to settle the dispute.
As with most battles, the side on the high ground won. The losing side may have suffered few casualties, but they were defeated and had to endure insults hurled from afar.
Modern battles have many killed or wounded, and in the end noone cares about the insults. Or, on forums like this, we endure insults hurled from afar, without a battle first to determine bragging and insult rights. That's unnatural; it should still be the custom to earn the right to insult your foe, by defeating him first.
Let me remind you that colonization originated in Europe, the most warlike and blood-soaked continent of all. Who has caused more harm—these individuals, or the society that created the nuclear bomb?
There are still some uncontacted tribes leading this kind of lifestyle. Why don't you try to join them? Or is that kind of life just for dark-skinned people? A little like how middle-class white eco campaigners who have benefitted from industrialization want to deny the same to Africa and the rest of the world?
Also, when do you think European colonization began? Did the Aztecs begin their brutal colonizations and empire building before or after Europeans contacted the Americas? And if you're talking about modern colonialism, the Arabs and Mongols and many others were engaging in it in the most brutal way possible hundreds of years earlier. It's the way of the world. Europeans invented the idea that colonialization, slavery, 'racism', and all the rest were wrong. If the Arabs, Ottomans, or Mongols had industrialized first, the world today would probably be 1,000 times worse.
And what harm has the nuclear bomb brought, aside from Hiroshima and Nagasaki? It's almost certainly prevented tens of millions of deaths in wars that would otherwise have been fought, including just last week in India and Pakistan. Hardly outweighs the thousands of benefits that European civilization has brought to the world, including your freedom to express TD777 your hate for your own culture on the Internet.
''Let me remind you that colonization originated in Europe, the most warlike and blood-soaked continent of all. Who has caused more harm—these individuals, or the society that created the nuclear bomb?'
The most warlike ones moved to America
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Colonization did not originate in Europe...
The ignorance of the typical liberal is incredible.
How's your knowledge of the emoluments clause? Accepting jumbo jets is just fine from your knowledgeable perspective, right?
As for the video. Assuming he's legit, I think the craziest thing is the lad in the comments from one of the tribes. In 62 years they've gone from stone age warfare to posting on youtube in well written English.
And in only a few decades, you went from an embryotic mass of goo, to a baby incapable of speech and sh!tting in your pants, to someone who can post idiotic, poorly thought-out comments on Let's Run. What's the difference?
How's your knowledge of the emoluments clause? Accepting jumbo jets is just fine from your knowledgeable perspective, right?
I'm not crazy about the idea.
I do know with absolute certainty that Democrats would have zero problem with it if the plane was offered to a Democrat president.
You've clearly had a break from reality. Literally nothing of the insane corruption and criminality that goes on in republican world these days would ever fly with Democrats. It wouldn't even fly with Republicans from a couple decades ago.
I guess you make yourself feel better about all the corruption, criminality, and everything else by pretending everyone else would do the same lol. You probably don't talk to liberals/democrats (aka normal people) very often do you. If any Democrat acting like Trump for a single day it'd be the end of their political career because no decent human being (liberals) would stand for it.
Anyway, have no idea why you are bringing loony political rants into a thread about that video lol. But then again you maga extremists like to politicize everything so you can always be touting your extremist propaganda. Maybe close your mouth and try thinking for once before you speak/type.
Do you really think that the inhabitants of any continent on earth are happier now than they were 1000 years ago?
It's hard to believe that there really are people who believe things like this, but the reality is there are probably millions - thanks to our education system.
You'd probably have a mental breakdown if you had to go without your smartphone for a day.
What a moronic ad hominem attack.
I go without a smartphone for full days all the time. (Camping is great.)
What does that have to do with the question of whether "civilization" has made living humans happier?
Note: I don't think that a given person with a smartphone in 2025 is per se any happier than a person without one was in 2005, or 1925. Do you?
I do know with absolute certainty that Democrats would have zero problem with it if the plane was offered to a Democrat president.
You've clearly had a break from reality. Literally nothing of the insane corruption and criminality that goes on in republican world these days would ever fly with Democrats. It wouldn't even fly with Republicans from a couple decades ago.
I guess you make yourself feel better about all the corruption, criminality, and everything else by pretending everyone else would do the same lol. You probably don't talk to liberals/democrats (aka normal people) very often do you. If any Democrat acting like Trump for a single day it'd be the end of their political career because no decent human being (liberals) would stand for it.
Anyway, have no idea why you are bringing loony political rants into a thread about that video lol. But then again you maga extremists like to politicize everything so you can always be touting your extremist propaganda. Maybe close your mouth and try thinking for once before you speak/type.
The dems just finished propping up a dementia addled, diaper wearing, cancer riddled puppet as President for four years. Please. The dems are corrupt to the core.