Amsterdam, Los Wampanoag (original North American Indians mentioned in the show) and tulips.
Great show about the imperialism of Amsterdam and how it parallels that of today's US Empire and in fact all Empires.
Reminds me of what happened to the Ik people.
Colin Turnbull, an archeologist studied the Ik, from Africa, in the 1970's.
"The Ik were, according to Turnbull, a "loveless" people devoid of culture, brutal and totally uncaring. He labelled them "the most selfish people on earth".
Turnbull argued that the Ik offered a stark warning to westerners: This allegedly nightmarish society was, according to Turnbull, the way the west was headed.
Matthew hears from Turnbull's critics who say he misunderstood the Ik and uses Turnbull's work to ask a profound question - is mankind fundamentally rotten and selfish at the core, or do kindness and compassion lie at the beating heart of human society?"
This all leads me to see a large concept of what I would call 'the age of domination' ----- a long thousands of year stretch from the end of hunter gathering societies to today.
An age where hierarchy and domination, racism and sexism, hatred and murder and such other contrivances live or have lived.
The question this show poses for me is:
Can we break out of the age of domination or will we succumb, as the Ik, probably the first libertarians, to the ruthless life the age of domination affords?
I would like to also hasten to state I am in full agreement with the author that the means of production have far outpaced human intelligence and will only do so in the future.
This will make positive change if not impossible, but surely difficult to say the least.
The hand tool that could provide food and shelter, is now the technological tool such as the internet. Unless we break from this age of domination it will destroy us as it did the Ik.
Amsterdam, Los Wampanoag (original North American Indians mentioned in the show) and tulips.
Great show about the imperialism of Amsterdam and how it parallels that of today's US Empire and in fact all Empires.
Reminds me of what happened to the Ik people.
Colin Turnbull, an archeologist studied the Ik, from Africa, in the 1970's.
"The Ik were, according to Turnbull, a "loveless" people devoid of culture, brutal and totally uncaring. He labelled them "the most selfish people on earth".
Turnbull argued that the Ik offered a stark warning to westerners: This allegedly nightmarish society was, according to Turnbull, the way the west was headed.
Matthew hears from Turnbull's critics who say he misunderstood the Ik and uses Turnbull's work to ask a profound question - is mankind fundamentally rotten and selfish at the core, or do kindness and compassion lie at the beating heart of human society?"
https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/m000synk
Richard Wolff often talks about:
Slavery: Master-slave
Feudalism: Feudal lord -peasant, serf
Capitalism: capitalist and labor
This all leads me to see a large concept of what I would call 'the age of domination' ----- a long thousands of year stretch from the end of hunter gathering societies to today.
An age where hierarchy and domination, racism and sexism, hatred and murder and such other contrivances live or have lived.
The question this show poses for me is:
Can we break out of the age of domination or will we succumb, as the Ik, probably the first libertarians, to the ruthless life the age of domination affords?
I would like to also hasten to state I am in full agreement with the author that the means of production have far outpaced human intelligence and will only do so in the future.
This will make positive change if not impossible, but surely difficult to say the least.
The hand tool that could provide food and shelter, is now the technological tool such as the internet. Unless we break from this age of domination it will destroy us as it did the Ik.