i met the director of an art gallery and she'd worked at the nz museum where they keep token maori heads in the basement that used to be traded. i was talking about how savage they were , the same kinds of points you see on the right wing sphere reaction to the haka yesterday, and she goes, yeah well at the same time, europeans had torture devices and were ransacking neighboring towns and displayed corpses in cities as warnings. we like to think we're more evolved in those terms but we aren't
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