Folks, I just wrote an editorial piece that was published today on the ePluribus Media Journal called Civilization's African Toll: From The Cradle of Civilization to a Grave of Indifference. It centers on the plight of the Hadzabe tribe of Tanzania, who have ...
...a simple request. "Please just tell the world that we are dying." No accusations, no calls for warfare. Just a simple request -- more of a reminder, really -- that we should be aware of the passing of an indigenous people from the face of the earth.
The Hadzabe resurrect an age old issue ... the sacrifice "man" has to make for "man" in the name of civilization.
To quote from the article,
"Today, modern humans wage war in the Middle East over control of precious energy resources while in Africa a myriad of other struggles continue and erupt in violent outbreaks of bloodshed. It is the overlap, however, of the Cradle of Civilization into the Cradle of Humanity where the most stark contrasts are occurring -- a battle of irony and hypocrisy between noble savages and civilized people."
In light of this particular conflict and the stark contrast it brings to mind, it begs the question "Who, exactly, is the 'savage' and who is the 'brute'?"
In that way, however, we betray ourselves as nothing more than a bunch of self-deluded "noble savages" who have simply developed different technical and social structures with which to engage in the same age-old conflicts, pitting us against our fellow man, against nature and against those whom we've come to hold in contempt as trespassers or impediments to our development of "the greater good."
As we've seen with our current Executive Branch, it doesn't matter how you dress up the monkey and his 800-lb sneering gorilla sidekick, they're still animals at heart.
Please read the piece, then join the discussion on the ePluribus Media community site.
If you feel so inclined, you can Rec this up so that others have a chance to see it, and provide whatever mojo you wish to spare below.
Special thanks to jenn718, cho, Aaron Barlow and roxy for their assistance in making this happen.
I will be monitoring this thread as well as the discussion thread, so comments here are helpful as well.
Thank you.