Alan Watts (via yourperestroika)
When my class discussed Darwin on Monday this was the gist of what I (and a lot of other people were saying). Darwin was a genius but his limitation was in thinking that the only way to evolve was the Western way. He looked down upon the people of Tierra del Fuego because they used the same canoe design for hundreds of years and never ‘improved’ upon it. He considered the lack of ‘improvement’ to be the sign of a less evolved society, although he placed the ultimate blame for their lack of evolution upon their environment and never said that the people or the society were intrinsically incapable of evolving to the same level of Europeans.
(Source: theorthodoxheretic)
