They handed out a 30 day for 'racism and bad takes' as well (aka, how dare you speak something inconvenient).
https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/the-radioactivist-receives-a-%F0%9F%9A%AB-thirty-day-ban-racism-and-bad-takes-on-an-a-game-thread.886011/
You can see why we are losing right there.
>losing
>TBP hasn't cracked 250 registered members online in the last year and a half
Mmm. If you say so. Personally this looks more like a slow suicide and I am happy to watch them down one poisoned cocktail after another.
No, you misread me. With "We" I meant "The West" in Afghanistan.
Ah. Although I would argue that winning wasn't an option unless we planned to depopulate and terraform the place. But you're not wrong.
If you Google "Jung problematic" (*) you will see that he is under fire, among other things, for defining some peoples/cultures "primitive". Of course no one actually reads his writings, thus noticing, for example, that Jung doesn't use the term in an offensive way, but only descriptive. He even points out how on the road of becoming "civilised" we lose a lot, and that the best possible outcome would be to integrate the civilised and primitive values so to live a fullest life.
Anyway, Jung studied "primitive" cultures by literally living among them (in East Africa and, IIRC, among the Indians of the American Southwest). Tl;dr: they are different.
"Different" means that you can neither apply your "civilised" ways and values and expect the same results, nor delude yourself that a primitive culture will become civilised overnight. Which is what the West, instead, gave for granted both in Iraq and Afghanistan.
So, the correct approach should be to understand how these cultures are different from ours and how you can help them
in their own terms. But the very moment you "cancel" the concept of "primitive" (like this idiot Mod on RPG.net does) you also cancel the opportunity to speak about some cultures in real terms - with the tragicomic results we all just witnessed.
(*) This is becoming a little pastime of mine: to think about an entity (man, institution, cartoon character...) add "problematic" and Google it. I almost always get returns. C.G. Jung, J.W. Campbell, The Pink Panther, Forrest Gump... Feel free to try!