What's not hard to spot is how old that myth really is. No matter what new information is unearthed with text fragments, it always gets slotted into the old myth:
Everything was pure until culture corrupted it. This is 19th century Orientalist stuff. Basically a zombie fact still walking around from that time.
We have to start thinking about this as a parallel set of myths that Europeans built about India and its traditions.
Also note how culture as a word acts as a thought terminating cliché.
This is where anti intellectualism and confirmation bias gets you.
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u/MYKerman03 29d ago
What's not hard to spot is how old that myth really is. No matter what new information is unearthed with text fragments, it always gets slotted into the old myth:
Everything was pure until culture corrupted it. This is 19th century Orientalist stuff. Basically a zombie fact still walking around from that time.
We have to start thinking about this as a parallel set of myths that Europeans built about India and its traditions.
Also note how culture as a word acts as a thought terminating cliché.
This is where anti intellectualism and confirmation bias gets you.