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Meet The Forgotten Tribe That Has Not Yet Discovered Fire... (Original Post) Quixote1818 Jul 2016 OP
To never have eaten from the tree of knowledge. denbot Jul 2016 #1
Charles Lindbergh was always searching for an Edenesque culture, an anti-modern world... Moonwalk Jul 2016 #3
Sounds like that tribe had a great way of life. Urchin Aug 2016 #5
I would say leave them alone, but there's a Mewtwo on that island (nt) LongtimeAZDem Jul 2016 #2
Genitalia-waving and violent? Sounds like Trump! LOL! MADem Aug 2016 #4
They should leave them alone Urchin Aug 2016 #6
There are scores of uncontacted tribes in the world. TheBlackAdder Aug 2016 #7

Moonwalk

(2,322 posts)
3. Charles Lindbergh was always searching for an Edenesque culture, an anti-modern world...
Sun Jul 31, 2016, 11:24 PM
Jul 2016

...unspoiled, peaceful, harmonious, natural and idilic. In the early 1970's a tribe like the was found—they had no word for war and were, yes, totally primitive and natural. Lindbergh was ecstatic and spent time with them. They were exactly as advertised, everything he could have wanted. But, ironically, he came away from his encounter observing, with disappointment, that the tribe had no ambitions, no curiosity, no drive to discover anything or change anything. No wish to do, learn or be more than what they were.

That's when he realized that the Eden he was looking for would be, for an explorer and adventurous and insatiably curious soul like him hellish rather than heavenly The lesson being, be careful what you wish for, you might get it...and find it wanting. The dream is almost always better than the reality in such instances.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
4. Genitalia-waving and violent? Sounds like Trump! LOL!
Mon Aug 1, 2016, 12:00 AM
Aug 2016

All they need is a comb-over and short fingers!

 

Urchin

(248 posts)
6. They should leave them alone
Mon Aug 1, 2016, 12:50 AM
Aug 2016

They've been successful for 60 thousand years. Good for them. I doubt industrial civilization will last even a tiny fraction of that.

There's nothing we have to give them that would be worth the price they'd end up paying for it.

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