Re: I'd sure like to know
... your point raises an interesting anthropological thought:
there tends to be a regular stream of programmes about the Incas and their ilk... Dr Jago Cooper's excellent series just being repeated on BBC being a current example.
in these series, there tends to be a reverence toward their culture, a degree of awe.
would some alien civilisation, watching us from afar, have an objective view which saw little difference between Decapitating Culture-A and Decapitating Culture-B... and find it rather odd that we create many tomes glorifying the culture of one (admittedly not directly the head choppy business) because it's old and gone, but decry the other...
obviously, i'm not being apologist or supporting either in terms of our modern advanced - "civilised" society... but aliens probably think we're a bit confused and stay away for that reason alone.
makes you think that maybe IS just have a fashion problem, if they dressed in funky colourful head gear, built pointy temples, worshipped mountains and jaguars and danced a bit more, maybe people would like them better...
[ note to anyone who doesn't read irony: i don't believe that ]
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