bc to them their cultural signifiers that identify them as white europeans (living off of beef) was more important than life.
I can't stop thinking about it while I pack to go watch my family kill themselves & eachother so they can cheer to celebrate the moment they have to switch to new calenders that they'll not use for the rest of the year (the book was Collapse by Jared Dimond)
just go down to the coast & eat a god damned fish, you are starving karen
Here's an askhistorians on Diamond
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Fuck CC, it just ate my answer when I tapped outside the box.
So you get the short version: grand theories of human history have a pretty noxious past, and academic historians for the most part are very specialized in their fields now and don't really have the broad knowledge base required to generate them anymore.
Someone else might be better equipped to deal with the specifics of historical materialism's lack of acceptance, however.