Garrison Davis

You know, patriarchy did not always exist.

Can we call that progress or is it just rectifying a previously imposed state?

And so these are some of the questions he grapples with.

Yeah, I mean, it's almost in everything, right?

It's a fundamental myth of liberal capitalism.

I guess it also underlies a certain logic of colonialism, right?

The idea that progress towards a neoliberal state, this can be the logic of explicit or less explicit colonialism, I guess.

But like you, you see it there too, right?

Like you see it in the, um, the sort of, uh, do you see a lot in 19th century?

It's, it's very explicit.

The idea to uplift, civilize and Christianize our little brown brothers.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The white man's burden and, uh, these things that like became very, very on vogue in the late 19th, early 20th century, I suppose.

You see it a lot there too, right?

Yeah, this whole notion, I think that even really starts with the concept of civilization.

slowly you know bring them up make them upright men and closer to being human than the state that they were in previously and the whole narrative around that is what has as it has evolved with time led to the situation that we're in now yeah

And there's this idea as well that even when there are these ruptures in normal, that everything will go back to its right place.

But as I've heard people say, you know, history is a series of unprecedented things, you know?