Someday he's gonna come back and give the people a PX crammed full of American stuff!
:’) I remember an article about the cargo cult on one particular island; the article was probably in “Argosy” or “True”, and in the 1960s, when WWII was still relatively recent. The cultists revered the cargo deity they called “John Frum”, and even preserved a snapshot of him from the 1940s. The photo was of an actual US serviceman of course, and at that time he was still alive. I don’t think they were able to interview him, but that gave a brief rundown of his actual identity and the wartime work on the island. And imagine — that was a cult based on a distorted folkloric version of known historic events from just a generation earlier. :’)
re: the cargo cults:
You mean, like so many of the ancient indigenous religions?
Ha! I knew it! You’re a secret Ancient Alienist!
PS. After seeing that pic, today, of that amazon dude with the earphones and boom mike, I’m not so sure I’m not one too now. Is there a secret handshake or code phrase I should know?
Someday he's gonna come back and give the people a PX crammed full of American stuff!
They were just clobbered by a typhoon.
