What's the Difference Between the Native Americans and the Europeans?
quotes come from the various volumes of the jesuit relations books, which were like diaries or accounts by jesuit missionaries. By contrast, the french were little better than slaves living in constant fear of getting into trouble with their superiors. And this is exactly what has been happening over the past 500 years. Various social movements have been fighting to eliminate most of those social hierarches that the americans ridiculed the europeans for. So let's take a look at some of condieron's critiques, as recorded by lahentan, as cited by greber and wengro. I find it hard to see how you europeans could be much more miserable than you
The European Enlightenment was heavily influenced by Native American critiques of European culture.
That European intellectuals reacted against this by developing the theory of “stages of human progress” where we went from from egalitarian hunter-gatherers to pastoralists to farmers to market civilization.
That Jean-Jacques Rousseau synthesized the Native American critique and the stages of progress theory into a seemingly egalitarian critique of European social hierarchies which resigns us to accept hierarchy as the price of civilization.
That this synthesis was the birth of the “intellectual left”.
That the concept of human equality has no meaning and should be discarded [these guys *really* needed to listen to this podcast before writing this…]
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