I do not like to criticise qualified educators who make theirknowledge available to lay people but really, the hidden ideology here is - let us just say insensitive to the generations who have suffered from exploitation and oppression and continue to do so at an accelerating rate. The most important question pertaining to the topic of the video - the origins of inequality -- is dismissed with no-fault obfuscation (42 seconds in) - "people began to "choose different paths" with "social complexity" leading (unintentionally of course) to :a "component of some people being better off." This is a fairy tale that I am sure helps keep a "respectable" position in academia but also leads students away from the morally and politically important issues that the great thinkers of human liberation have worked to understand especially since the 19th century.
You've brought up a very important point. I guess I thought it was so obvious that inequality is bad that I may have unintentionally whitewashed it in this video. I'll give it a re-look and see if I should do a new one on this topic. Anyway, thanks for pointing this out.
@thearchaeologistslaborator6591 Thanks for your considered response. The only thing I would ask is that you acknowledge that political theorists and other disciplines have stakes in the question of what material conditions make inequality possible and that resustance to it (not just passive suffering) is worth looking for in the archaeological record. And regarding inequality being an accepted evil,, the most dominant political iseology of our time holds that if the rich are allowed to get richer overall wealth increases and that inequality is merely the result of merit and individual life choices. (Amongst other self serving rationalisations by ruling classes.)
And of course these things are more on our minds today than ever, with multibillionaires controlling so much. I should mention that there are some archaeologists who have actively pursued research on cases that might represent resistance against oppressive authority structures. Now that you've made me think about that, probably I should do a video on that.
Great video thanks
Really interesting!
Glad you think so! Thanks!
succinctly done
Thanks!
I do not like to criticise qualified educators who make theirknowledge available to lay people but really, the hidden ideology here is - let us just say insensitive to the generations who have suffered from exploitation and oppression and continue to do so at an accelerating rate.
The most important question pertaining to the topic of the video - the origins of inequality -- is dismissed with no-fault obfuscation (42 seconds in) - "people began to "choose different paths" with "social complexity" leading (unintentionally of course) to :a "component of some people being better off."
This is a fairy tale that I am sure helps keep a "respectable" position in academia but also leads students away from the morally and politically important issues that the great thinkers of human liberation have worked to understand especially since the 19th century.
You've brought up a very important point. I guess I thought it was so obvious that inequality is bad that I may have unintentionally whitewashed it in this video. I'll give it a re-look and see if I should do a new one on this topic. Anyway, thanks for pointing this out.
@thearchaeologistslaborator6591 Thanks for your considered response. The only thing I would ask is that you acknowledge that political theorists and other disciplines have stakes in the question of what material conditions make inequality possible and that resustance to it (not just passive suffering) is worth looking for in the archaeological record. And regarding inequality being an accepted evil,, the most dominant political iseology of our time holds that if the rich are allowed to get richer overall wealth increases and that inequality is merely the result of merit and individual life choices. (Amongst other self serving rationalisations by ruling classes.)
And of course these things are more on our minds today than ever, with multibillionaires controlling so much. I should mention that there are some archaeologists who have actively pursued research on cases that might represent resistance against oppressive authority structures. Now that you've made me think about that, probably I should do a video on that.
Real shit
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Woke
Do you think Luke 18:25 is woke?
Workers of the world unite