ldw on Nostr: “Anthropologists may get killed; but anthropology goes on; and in the long run it ...
“Anthropologists may get killed; but anthropology goes on; and in the long run it can’t fail to succeed. Whereas your entomological approach... It may succeed at the beginning; you can generally frighten and overawe people into submission. That’s to say that, by treating them as bugs, you can generally make them behave like bugs — crawl and scuttle to cover. But the moment they have the opportunity, they’ll turn on you. The anthropologist may get killed while establishing his first contacts; but after that, he’s safe; he’s a man among men. The entomologist may start by being safe; but he’s a bug-hunter among bugs — among bugs, what’s more, who resent being treated as bugs, who know they aren’t bugs. His bad quarter of an hour comes later on. It’s the old story: you can do everything with bayonets except sit on them.”
— Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
https://youtu.be/8eyuHdINM68?si=cNwCIGE-0HQ4U5knPublished at
2024-04-26 14:40:02Event JSON
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