• UlyssesT [he/him]
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    2 days ago

    Could you help me try to understand how district placement emphasizing the local geography's influence on a civilization is somehow woke? I can't make the connection at all. If you've seen that take, could you elaborate?

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      2 days ago

      They think the idea that geography and/or climate can shape a civilization is woke. Their idea is that civilizations and culture are something that I guess exists a priori as "good" or "bad", and "developed" or "undeveloped". The very idea that a bad crop yield or lack of local resources can shape how a society develops apparently contradicts with the reactionary worldview.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        2 days ago

        What the fuck do they think shapes a civilization? Some magically scarce yet potentially infinite "willpower" resource? Or is it calipers time and "build pyramids" is just in the Egyptian genes (or aliens, if they're that white in their beliefs about how nonwhites can't build stuff)?

        • BeamBrain [he/him]
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          2 days ago

          What the fuck do they think shapes a civilization? Some magically scarce yet potentially infinite "willpower" resource?

          It's not coincidence that one of the Nazis' propaganda films was literally titled Triumph of the Will.

        • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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          2 days ago

          I think it's either full calipers, or very terminal econ brain. I guess when the modern world is so focused on spreadsheets, it may be easy to forget that there is a world that humans are forced to interact with.