Podcast
Behind the Bastards
The book describes a trick that European writers use when examining other societies, which is to present themselves as entirely rational while highlighting the supposed weirdness of other cultures.
I've been talking about The Never Was a West a lot recently.
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Episode: It Could Happen Here Weekly 78
The book describes a trick that European writers use when examining other societies, which is to present themselves as entirely rational while highlighting the supposed weirdness of other cultures.
I've been talking about The Never Was a West a lot recently.
One of the things that he talks about in The Never Was a West is this trick that European writers use when they're looking at another society, which is like they present themselves as people whose behaviors are entirely rational and they're solving a logic puzzle.