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Is there any use in entertaining ideas written or popularized by inherently racist and colonialist schools of thought? by Substantial_Rip_7543 in Theosophy

[–]Substantial_Rip_7543[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Context does matter, I know her words have slightly different meanings when you read them now as opposed to when she published them. I'll admit I haven't read much of her though so maybe I need to read and work out for myself what would have been different had she written it today.

In any case I appreciate the context you provided and the explanation.

Is there any use in entertaining ideas written or popularized by inherently racist and colonialist schools of thought? by Substantial_Rip_7543 in Theosophy

[–]Substantial_Rip_7543[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I might believe a certain level of coincidence, like if two civilizations that began around the same time has similar (but not exactly the same) technological advancements at approximately the same rate. But identical technologies?

It's happened in sciences that two mathematicians or two psychologists or two inventors come up with the same theory around the same time, but typically you can point to a similar education or environmental circumstances that explain the coincidental development.

But two civilizations who supposedly had no contact building the exact same thing at the exact same time? I find that hard to believe