Why is it assumed that people who live primitively, suffer from all diseases in the rain forest and believe they can take down airplanes with arrows are somehow happier living that way?
Yes, let’s send them some nice missionaries-so they can vary their diet !!
We don't know that they are, we just assume it.
Because of the OTHER tribe.... You know, tweed suits with patched elbows, single malt scotch over ice, fights to the death over funding and their own strange and diverse behaviors in the face of real life.... You know... the anthropologists. No more feral humans, no more need for anthropologists.
/johnny
well, historically, contact between ‘primitive’ cultures and ‘cvilization’ usually ends up with the tribe’s being decimated, it not wiped out entirely. So, happier? Maybe not. Better off? Probably.
Don't you know? Because all cultures are equal. All religions are equal. All attitudes are equal. All sexual preferences are equal. All governments are equal.
If these people want to paint themselves red and shoot arrows at airplanes, you should let them be. If they want to strap on suicide vests and blow up Israeli children, don't you dare make cartoons of their religious leaders. If they want to be sold into child labor as prostitutes to UN officials in Africa, then what business is it of yours. Who made you, your brother's keeper?
/choking on PC..help...aaggahhaggh
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.
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.
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?
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.
It's called "The Myth of the Noble Savage," the fallacious construct which maintains that people unsullied by the touch of "civilization" are somehow more morally pure or altruistic than those who have been depraved by indoor plumbing and clothing. Think "Dances with Wolves" meets "King Kong."
It’s the secular elite subtly expressing their anti-Christian bias.