Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Torn From Today's Headlines

'Undiscovered Indian Tribe in Amazon Spotted'
Spotted? Great. By what, a helicopter? A plane? We flew threw virgin airspace over virgin jungle and disturbed a virgin tribe of people. Again. And you bet your bippy we disturbed them. What made these folks of flying machines with gods spying them from the air? You can bet there was some serious rewriting of tribal myths that night, folks
Messianic, somebody will decide these pure people will need to be shown the way and will invade this people, you just watch. Some wellmeaning missionary, priest or politician or real estate speculator or quester searching for Indian gold will make their way into this territory and hopefully get killed and eaten before they can kill and eat the tribe. Not necessarily literally, but metaphorically, mind you. Well, perhaps literally as well.
It makes me think of modern day pictures of missionaries showing third world countries how to live. Come out of your homes, your tribes, and leave your millenia-old myths behind and take up the cross! It's so much better! Leave the teachings of your forefathers so we can strap you in a seat in our institutions. We will give you public schools. Just come tour ours and see what a success they are! You to can find your end in anxiety, isolation and finally a drug induced hallucination! Our way is best! Onward and upward!
Is it our right to invade?

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