My history teacher says “geography is destiny” and made us watch guns germs and steel. I think bad empanada said this narrative promotes a lack of remorse for colonization because it’s characterized as inevitable. He didn’t explain why it was wrong though iirc. My teacher (who likes orwell) says it’s just material conditions. It could be argued that geography is created the original conditions that led to class society before class forced largely took over, though this could be taken to the extent of class being secondary. Anyone know about this?
“Geography is Destiny” mfs when I tell them that Eurofucks had to rely on stealing resources from the Global South to as much as get a taste of being advanced technologically and in higher standards of living to the point where they no longer had to rely on plundering one another like they always did for thousands of years:
The ones we’re made to watch basically say “all the technology came from the Fertile Crescent, but Europe perfected it.”