Posted on 05/29/2008 2:59:10 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Nothing quite like the soft bigotry of arrogant elitists that assume the myth of the Noble Savage. They must be morally superior to us because they live such brutish, harsh-- and likely short-- lives.
Don't even think of letting them have that dastardly refrigeration.
Sure, there's nothing wrong with living a simple life. Much to be said for it actually. But to ascribe a moral superiority to lives lived largely in constant desparation devoid of "modern" comforts is just elitist and arrogant. I would note that the people who think these things still seem to go home to their nice comfortable suburban home with central heat and cable TV. ~They~ don't live in a hut and hunt for their next meal.
Liberals, especially environmentalists, want the few remaining humans to live like this.
If you follow the ideology behind many of the current environmentalist orthodoxies, the only real solution is a reduction of the human population to a few thousand primitives spread out around the world.
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Exactly. I am always sickened by the Treetard hippies who want to treat these humans like they are an exhibit in a zoo and somehow feel they shouldn't be given the advantages of modern society.
[... if the UN has their way they’ll be sending condoms and free abortions.]
And the UN troops can abuse their children. THEN we’ll send in the Social Workers!
Lucky for them they aren’t members of the FLDS sect, as I imagine their children are ‘in danger’.
Fascinating.
Do you have that game. If so, grab a screen shot of them so we can take a look.
Last uncontacted tribe? Just last night I got a call on my cell phone from this tribe. they wanted to know what was the hold up on their pepperoni pizza!
The woman seems to be wearing a skin tight body suit. Do they have those in the wilds? Also, she looks surprisingly shapely for a stone age type tribeswoman. I don’t recall many looking like that in all my years of perusing Natl Geographic. It might be Halle Berry in that retro Catwoman outfit.
Well, they must have a small carbon footprint. This is how the elitist liberals want you and me to live as well... that is if we are among the fortunate they allow to live.
The biggest change in people seen when we settled down to an urban existence and gave up the hunter-gatherer lifestyle was a LOSS of height and health. Hunter-gatherers typically experienced greater freedom and autonomy, greater height and health, and probably lived a better life than early urban humans.
As to if they are happy? What else do they know? Do you assume that without Starbucks and TV they lead miserable existences? They probably have a rich and varied life full of stories and laughter and the full interplay of human drama that everyone experiences.
Because libtards in academia tell us so. I was forced to watch a video series called “A poor man shames us all”in an Anthropology course I took. I never understand why we should be ashamed, but understood that according to the teacher anyway, their society was better because they had more “culture” and “lived off the land”, and had close family ties. Of course you know, we here in America don’t have anything like that do we?
Obviously means white loggers.
Why assume they are "uncontacted"? May be they are a splinter group of a tribe that has be in contact and decided - No Thanks. I say that because of the aggressive posture they are displaying to an aircraft. They know!
He should’ve dropped a Coke bottle in their camp.
Patriots :)
From what I have been shocked to read about the fate of the aborigines, I pray that no one tries to “help” them too much.
Let them have matches for a few weeks, then take them away and see how happy they are.
A: PC-ism. The notion of the noble savage is part and parcel of leftist dogma. They believe that living in Eden is possible and these societies are somehow un-infected by the greed and inequities of modern society.
What the lefties won't accept is the fact that any people or group will gladly exchange their way of living for much of the benefits of modern society. Give ‘em some medicine, beads, soap or a fragment of mirror glass and you've begun the cultural dilution - and they'll gladly take these things (or steal them). The other myth is that the primitives live some kind of pristine lifestyle. Facts are, these ‘innocents’ live under conditions of constant pagan fears, parasites, chronic disease, starvation, high mortality, protracted warfare and many other ills that make life as a part of a greater economy seem small.
I'm not saying that they should be assimilated and kicked off their ancestral lands, I'm just saying there is no purity or goofy notions of inviolate innocence to these people or conditions.
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