Little Green (Men?) and BIAS.

You need to look at things radically. You may not agree with Doctor Fatima (Especially about First Contact Protocols.), but she jolts you out of your smug patriarchal centered complacency. Her comments about Homo Economicus are hilarious and valid at the end of the video.

I do think she makes good arguments. It makes me work hard to check my own viewpoints.

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Checking my viewpoint: an example:

You know that this scientist bemoans how the WEST emphasizes structured education in music, as how we pound into our musicians how to read the language of Western musical notation? She thinks if we free-formed our musical education more, then we would have a better, more expanded musical appreciation for other cultures.

I thought about that one. Yet... if we did not structure our educational processes on rules and ordering as we do in the WEST.



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Where would global civilization be?

BOTH are Picassos. He was able to use his understanding of the rules as they were taught to him to transcend the formalism of his training. It so happens that the BEST Jazz and rock and rap musicians, knew and know the rules of music. It is why western music and art flourishes everywhere, while the crap in the rest of the world dies. Our rules and techniques are not limiters. They are a necessary frame to build upon. The same process goes for economics and politics and science.

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