No, of course not. I found it interesting for its primitive nature, simplistic thought and hard lives which shows how far we have come in just the last 100 years.
Few thought about what you mention in days past and were absent everywhere in the world by all societies, more or less, which was one of my points.
All of those types of thoughts of right and wrong and humanity, by anyone, about colonialism, or wars for territory, only came about recently when we started to learn with comprehensive public education how to think abstractly.
Before that humans were primarily concrete thinkers just like all other animals.
The one exception was the ancient Greeks, but that is another story-lol.
That has been my thesis for a long time. NO one, anywhere in the world was thinking such deep thoughts as you infer, not even the natives that warred on each other constantly.
Indigenous folks all over the Americas warred constantly with each other including slavery. This was not a practice particular to Europeans.
I.e. civilization is a modern manifestation, around the world, born of the insight that education was essential for a society and out of that came humanity and civil rights..
Ideas of civil or gender rights are brand new, like only 100 years anywhere in the world.
Our evolution has been progressing for 15,000 years, but only just hit a critical mass in the last couple of hundred years with democracy and especially the last hundred.
Didn't mean to preach, it is just always on my mind-:)>
Cheers
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Does the movie ever remotely mention how the western settlement movement destroyed a way of life more than 10,000 years old?
I kinda doubt it, but Walsh was an interesting director. |
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