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I\'d suggest at least a mention of the RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement, and at most an outright NoRealLifeExamplesPlease, for this trope. There\'s just way too many UnfortuanteImplications around judging certain historic cultures or regions as \
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I\\\'d suggest at least a mention of the RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement, and at most an outright NoRealLifeExamplesPlease, for this trope. There\\\'s just way too many UnfortunateImplications around judging certain historic cultures or regions as \\\"low culture\\\", especially when almost ALL those examples were treating Europe as the archetype of \\\"high culture\\\". (From my perspective, Spanish with guns destroying the highly advanced art and culture of the Inca empire to melt everything down for gold and silver - thus destroying their own economy through inflation - seems a lot closer to the mark...hence this being a controversial topic where real life examples may not be appropriate.)
The point of this trope is not just that a culture has access to a technology it couldn\\\'t have invented, but that it\\\'s not culturally ready to deal with the ramifications of that technology. It\\\'s hard to make those judgements accurately about civilizations on our own world, and probably not a good idea to try to do so.
The point of this trope is not just that a culture has access to a technology it couldn\\\'t have invented, but that it\\\'s not culturally ready to deal with the ramifications of that technology. It\\\'s hard to make those judgements accurately about civilizations on our own world, and probably not a good idea to try to do so.
