i wonder if anticolonial people missed one big win for indiginous people specifically can you imagine how fantastically cool it would have been for SOME premodern people to see crazy new shit for the first time
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just imagine! you grow up and take technology for granted you're born into it, moulded by it INURED to it now imagine seeing a horse for the first time after growing up in a hemisphere denuded of megafauna imagine seeing your first LCD after growing up in the bush
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admittedly the plagues and enslavement and torture probably took the bloom off the rose but ON THE MARGIN
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Incidentally, the latest episode of
@Fall_of_Civ_Pod is about the Aztecs and it is excellent and they discuss pretty much this thing. https://www.reddit.com/r/FallofCivilizations/comments/ebe2qb/episode_9_is_now_live/ …1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
oooooooh thank!!
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