komponisto, “trying to move our ‘real world’ in the direction of an ‘ideal world’” is different from “pretending our ‘real world’ is already an ‘ideal world’;” the latter action often undermines the former goal.
If the ‘real world’ merely had a history of male oppression, it would not be a problem. The problem is that the ‘real world’ has substantial ongoing male oppression, some of which is contingent on the past environment, and is better detected when you know something about past, in exactly the same way that knowing something about the human ancestral environment enables you to discover things about present day human psychology. This is what is being referred to when one speaks of history.
komponisto, “trying to move our ‘real world’ in the direction of an ‘ideal world’” is different from “pretending our ‘real world’ is already an ‘ideal world’;” the latter action often undermines the former goal.
If the ‘real world’ merely had a history of male oppression, it would not be a problem. The problem is that the ‘real world’ has substantial ongoing male oppression, some of which is contingent on the past environment, and is better detected when you know something about past, in exactly the same way that knowing something about the human ancestral environment enables you to discover things about present day human psychology. This is what is being referred to when one speaks of history.