![]() ![]() Pooling all our talents through peaceful collaboration will benefit all without one group feeling stripped of its historical identity and becoming absorbed by the larger world that would again be seen as a conqueror. The planet does change, and its occupants need to keep adapting, inventing and learning new ways to cope. How to bring them to understand that the very things that make their lives possible and comfortable-food, transport, medicine, electricity-are part of the values they can gain from cross-cultural symbiosis, techniques that can make them self-sufficient and independent, not having to demand and depend on charity and subsidies. How to apply how we teach children to old cultures without having them take offense. The trick is how to sell them on opening their minds a smidgen without losing their pride in their own heritage. Not all of them are as advanced as Neil deGrasse Tyson. We need to talk to them at their level of comprehension. Clarke said, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." We can't afford to wait centuries more for cultural evolution of the "developing" (stubbornly backward) countries to catch up. We need science story tellers and ambassadors of education at the simplest levels to send to that classroom in South Africa to make it interesting and fun for those folks to learn. Our most advanced scholars, just like the front edge of computer technology, unfortunately advance beyond the range of the general population and forget how to discourse on a mutual level. Seuss approach to make science and higher learning palatable by introducing it at a child's level of understanding. What a perverse way to develop scientific knowledge-through constructing weapons of war. And the factionalizing of the species into separate cultural pockets also breeds predatory tendencies that justify mutual hostilities. No one likes to feel inferior, so better toss out anything that's new or hard to learn rather than be seen as substandard.įrom my perch as a Martian anthropologist observing the human species, I can see where science-reality-objective truth are a threat to all the populations still steeped in religious fantasies. Cultures and belief systems, just like bodies, have immune systems, rejection reactions to outsider impact. It looks like we are still centuries away from cross-fertilization of information and social organization. ![]() If it is not homegrown, like belief in black magic, ethnic music, climbing trees, it triggers aversion. Those who don't understand something tend to reject it. Too bad these folks are conflating the hated colonial system which deprived them of their independence and original culture with the technology and knowledge (science, math, medicine) that those more advanced foreigners happened to develop and spread around the globe. Interesting that there were also some white people in the room.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |