meremortal wrote
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unfortunately this is something the wite folk have created in, [B]what once was, a most natural and free land.[/B] they did th same in about every country in the world (bar thailand where the king lost his life to save his country altho it didn't help them in recent years!) and that is why i'm wishing to escape from the western world. however, i feel 'they' have got there before me ...... by complaining and misbehaving (owning a noisy fast sepeda and galloping around blind corners); disrespecting religious ceremonies and the likes; and wishing our desires to be met (sit down waist high loo with push down button, air-conditioning, toilet paper, toxic vegetable seed oils so our food does'nt taste coconutty (but kills instead - eg cancer)) we destroyed a country, it's culture, language and, most of all, it's natives. maybe i'm going where i'm coming from .....
There has long been this Western, romantic view that untouched societies are simple, innocent and harmonious. It was and is wishful thinking. Information technology has had a profound impact on the way societies relate and exchange information but any communities whether they be remote in a jungle or a crowded city are prone to have the usual human complexities from love to spite and malicious often violent feuds. In Australia there are romantics who still have the notion that Aboriginal peoples lived in peaceful harmony with nature and the universe until a white invasion spoiled it all. The history of that invasion includes attempted genocide, theft murder and oppressing Aborigines. That is true. But pre the invasion there was not an Aboriginal nation as such but hundreds of tribes many of which were often engaged in hostilities. And within tribes the usual dynamics of human emotions and variety of personalities given to periods of harmony and disruption. Similarly I am sure that before the Dutch these same human features amongst the Balinese meant life was not just blissful and free of stress. This is not to say that constant change and development has not come without a significant and detrimental impact. But it is the same the world over. Ever changing and often for the worse. It is what it is.
