> Probably colonialism is partly to blame; to justify colonialist policies, Europeans engaged in motivated reasoning exaggerating the technological advantages they did in fact possess over other cultures (many of them Neolithic, despite existing up to the present day), and using them to justify claims of superiority not merely material but also intellectual and genetic.
Yes ...
> (A modern form of this is making fun of flat-earthers, anti-vaxxers, creationists, Apollo conspiracy theorists, Juggalos, and 9/11 truthers, and occasionally engaging in more violent rhetoric toward them.)
... no?
On the one hand you have things like aboriginal knowledge that were useful and valid for providing the needs of survival in the context in which they found themselves, but is dismissed simply for being different. On the other you have people who are wrong and in ways that threaten their survival and society.
Yes ...
> (A modern form of this is making fun of flat-earthers, anti-vaxxers, creationists, Apollo conspiracy theorists, Juggalos, and 9/11 truthers, and occasionally engaging in more violent rhetoric toward them.)
... no?
On the one hand you have things like aboriginal knowledge that were useful and valid for providing the needs of survival in the context in which they found themselves, but is dismissed simply for being different. On the other you have people who are wrong and in ways that threaten their survival and society.