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0 pointscutemonster2y ago0 comments

> In Afghanistan this was fundamentally impossible

That's an odd idea. The people in Afghanistan aren't magically different -- instead, they're being oppressed by a comparatively small group of violent uneducated men (the Talibans).

This is how it used to be:

https://www.google.com/search?q=afghanistan+before+1978&tbm=...

That's more like in southern Europe.

But the Cold War and the US helping the Talibans take the power destroyed all that.

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philwelch2y ago· 1 in thread

You’re showing me pictures of people in cities. I’m not talking about the cities. I’m talking about the tribal populations in the countryside. And honestly, the tribal peoples aren’t the “magically different” ones. They’re closer to normal baseline human. We’re the WEIRD ones.

cutemonsterOP2y ago

Ok (yes I did notice, I guess most photographers lived in the cities).

I wonder how life was in the countryside -- maybe I can find something about that.

> They’re closer to normal baseline human. We’re the WEIRD ones

Yeah, it seems to me that tribal violence is much more natural and common than ... than what I could ever have believed 10 years ago

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