Comments on: Community Wisdom https://www.isegoria.net/2015/05/community-wisdom/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:00:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Gaikokumaniakku https://www.isegoria.net/2015/05/community-wisdom/comment-page-1/#comment-2287194 Gaikokumaniakku Wed, 20 May 2015 20:48:28 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=38045#comment-2287194 Pre-agricultural peoples are great for liberals, because liberals need help pretending that Rousseau’s idea of the noble savage is reasonable.

“the forest people of Kalimantan and Sumatra cannot wait to get out of the forest”

Yeah, that’s the problem with actually helping them.

If the white liberals help the forest people too effectively, the forest people will get out of the forest — and then the white liberals won’t be able to use the forest people as living props in a noble-savage morality play.

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