Man from uncontacted tribe emerges in Amazon, villagers demonstrate a lighter
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Also "Funai officials arrived soon after, and [...] he was taken to a nearby facility operated by the group", why not just let him live and go back to his people? (even though he would go back later) also the article states that they couldn't communicate right away with him, so did they force him to go with them? why so much situation for a guy who wandered around and found some people to talk to? maybe looking for some help?
In colloquial use, "incident" has recently taken on a negative connotation because people don't generally use it except to refer to situations they would rather not elaborate upon. But in the slightly-formal language of newspaper writing it is frequently used to refer to the event that the article is talking about without repeating themselves. In this context it is neutral and has no negative connotation.
Recently? That use has been attested since at least 1913.
What if he'd contracted a disease?
If you know so much about European colonization then you might also know the topic of “contact with then” vs “avoid contact” is almost as old as the colonization itself.
I hope the irony of “our amazing stuff,we know better” and your statement of “just leave them alone” isn’t lost on you.
I wonder how they feel finding out the rest of the world has some nasty infectious diseases and people there need to work their asses of for 30+ years to pay their mortgage and have a roof.
As I understand it, when corporate start setting up pineapple and sugar plantations in Hawaii they found they could not get cheap labor from the Hawaiian people themselves. And why would they? Between fish and fruit they have all the food they need. A simple structure (on the preferred side of the island) is all you need for shelter.
So they brought in Chinese laborers.
Of course, if they don't have access to antibiotics, they have other much worse kinds of sickness to deal with, and even their relatively simple lifestyle will be hard to maintain without hard work...
Go far enough into a forest and you'll likely be left alone when you build a primitive hut, except that now an hour of work buys you a lighter, a knife of unachievable quality, a pack of pills that save you from dying from infection, or "firewood" (a propane cartridge) for days.
There are very few places left in the world where that is true.
Governments basically all hate stateless people. There's been a long history of forcing "civilization" on stateless people "for their own good", but really it's because they can't be easily controlled or taxed.
Also, tap water or at least a well.
During tje first year, children get like 20 or 25 vaccines. Some of the ilness are very rare and they may not know them, but other are just severe diarhea caused by a common bacteria. And add antibiotics for other common problems.
Joke would be on humanity.
Or what about no internet? No computers? Would that country really turn out that bad?
Hubris at the individual level is rather easy to discern. At the civilizational level, it's a bit harder.
If everything else falls apart the Amish will be out in the middle of nowhere doing their thing. If you want to see what it looks like to stop the clock, go talk with them. They’ll happily have a chat with you if you buy some furniture from them.
Heck, my friend was Amish for most of his childhood. Then his parents pulled him out of it. Then he fell in with the wrong crowd and struggled with heroin addiction for several years before getting clean. And that’s a far, far smaller cultural shock than an uncontacted tribe. Sometimes he says he wishes he could go back.
Probably though TV was the beginning of the downward spiral.
and mostly unhealthy in comparison to self hunted / self-planted food.
There's a big reason why the vast majority of people choose to buy their food.
There's things I wish were different in the world I find myself living in, but there are also many developments that my parents found magical over the course of their lives.
Not because he is stupid, just because he completely lacks a frame of reference, the same way our children today would be stumped by a rotary wheel telephone or a vinyl cylinder, or our Area51-esque scientist not able to understand a truly alien spacecraft.
Every sufficiently developed technology is indistinguishable from magic, yada yada
I'm not sure how to show that it is 100% automatic, and it's not just a TV with a hidden guy on the other side that is very fast and good at drawing.
> Gurak of the Deep Green squinted at the gleaming figure before him, arms crossed, expression caught between boredom and mild professional disappointment. “Hnh,” he grunted, rapping a knuckle against its polished chest. Solid. Clumsy joints. No proper soul-stone, just blinking lights like a drunk firefly. The shaman’s stories had warned of stone men who walked and talked, ancient servants of forgotten gods, but none of them had beeped apologetically when poked. He spat thoughtfully into the dirt. “You’re one of those, then,” he said, turning away. “Try not to fall in the river. The last one rusted.”
(And he wasn't as enlightened by the experience as you might have hoped.)
I think Pratchett and Gaiman did it best:
> he's a carpenter from Galilee, his travelling opportunities are limited