• machiabelly [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Almost nothing living fits into strict categories. Living things are far too complicated for that. The video states that human brains like having clear categories but I also read the first 10 pages of pedagogy of the oppressed and human nature arguments are designed to hurt everything I love. Maybe if we all grew up in a non-hierarchical society that wasn't anti-intellectual we wouldn't gravitate towards density.

    • JuneFall [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Honestly the first ten pages give you a good understanding on its aim, trajectory and some consequences. In that way the book is well made even if it reads a bit propagandist, but that seems to work better than Capital's 20 fore words.

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    My 10th grade biology teacher gave almost this exact lecture. Except in French.

  • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    I’m a fucking biologist and never actually put that together. Like, I knew most of the examples he gave, but for some reason thought of them as exceptions to a mostly hard rule. But obviously it can vary completely from species to species. Nothing else in nature falls into neat categories obviously this doesn’t either!