What a marvelous story. Daly's project was also thoughtful (as presented here, anyway) rather than a 1960s "shock" piece.
I was a little disappointed that the historical section was not more detailed, especially as the beginning of the article talks about today being a tie of misinformation. All cultures invent historical precedent, of course. But this work brought to mind a series of Nazi "documentaries" produced in the 1930s and 1940s trying to justify the bogus "Aryan origin" narrative and in particular to claim that the so-called "Aryan" German culture they were asserting was in fact indigenous to German territory. (Of course, like all cultures, it both is and is not).
I find this kind of thing particularly interesting and, separately, hilarious, as I personally couldn't care less about the idea that one's ancestry justifies one's own self. Thus its importance to others makes it worth learning about.
(On the amusing side, I was particularly struck by a supposed artifact, a sculpted head, that looked remarkably like Dilbert. I told Scott Adams about it and he was suitably amused. But looking now at his writing over the last six years or so one has to wonder...:-).
I was a little disappointed that the historical section was not more detailed, especially as the beginning of the article talks about today being a tie of misinformation. All cultures invent historical precedent, of course. But this work brought to mind a series of Nazi "documentaries" produced in the 1930s and 1940s trying to justify the bogus "Aryan origin" narrative and in particular to claim that the so-called "Aryan" German culture they were asserting was in fact indigenous to German territory. (Of course, like all cultures, it both is and is not).
I find this kind of thing particularly interesting and, separately, hilarious, as I personally couldn't care less about the idea that one's ancestry justifies one's own self. Thus its importance to others makes it worth learning about.
(On the amusing side, I was particularly struck by a supposed artifact, a sculpted head, that looked remarkably like Dilbert. I told Scott Adams about it and he was suitably amused. But looking now at his writing over the last six years or so one has to wonder...:-).