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Old 30th June 2015
ibara ibara is offline
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Well... no. He insinuates that Homo erectus was acommunal, which is outright absurdity. He also appears to be unaware that most of Homo sapiens sapiens history also incorporates those very same stone tools (which implies via his own argument that for most of our specie's history, we were acommunal).

Also the "literally no one knows how to make a computer mouse" idea is useless. Such a phenomenon has been in existence for millennia. No one person knows how to make a medieval cathedral. No one person at that time knew how to make a medieval cathedral.

Finally his "support staff" line is racist and obscures the actualities and problems of the global neoliberal capitalist regime. He chooses only those tasks likely to be done by whites, save for the coffee, and there he is clearly ignorant of the unjust working conditions, including child labor of the coffee trade.

A much more meaningful analysis of what's going on could be found by analyzing the production of our modern technological goods via actor-network theory or some other STS analysis.

I'll give him one thing: he's clearly not an anthropologist or any other kind of social scientist. He'd be laughed out of his undergraduate courses if he were.