Saturday, May 31, 2008

Found: One lost tribe.



I was using my eyes yesterday to view one off on the internet news conduits.

What startled my very senses was the images beamed from an aeroplane over the Amazonian Jungle.  Here, we were told, was evidence of an Amazonian tribe who have remained out of contact with the outside world i.e they have no inkling of the outside, modern world.  Whether it was due to  falsely uprezzzed images or a combination of that and their rather garish 'war make up' I felt unnerved,  even sat thousands of miles away on the end of a cyberpipe.  It was almost as if we've managed to send a visual recording device back in time (perhaps one day that may be possible) and sent images of past civilisations in 'real time'.  I could've sworn I'd seen that tribe on an old episode of the original Star Trek TV series...they look remarkably familiar.  Of course signs of aggression where shown by them: the 'female' (as it was claimed) sent shivers hurtling down to my coccyx.  But I'm not surprised if this is the first time they've seen outside contact – they're flying above them is a gigantic metal parrot making a noise like a five hundred metre long hunting horn (incidentally they now sell these in Asda/Walmart).

So what happens to them next?  I can understand the reasoning behind 'exposing' these tribes: it's proof (so they say) that such tribes exist and showing the authorities they exist may in fact help  prevent further destruction of their habitat (Terence Conrad had very ambitious expansion plans).

Now however, this lost tribe is aware of ulterior influence – whether they had any knowledge of outside peoples and technology I'm not sure: if they had then perhaps they understood that the large object in the sky was indeed man made and a possible threat (hence spears at the ready).  If they hadn't they it's quite possibly a huge talking point around the fires come night time.  They essentially have to rewrite the history books overnight.  Alongside the sun god, they now have a giant silver parrot to contend with.  Children will have a story nightcap of the day the king parrot came to the village; art will take on this twist of fate and perhaps even their behaviour (appeasing gods) will alter accordingly.

Unless the snaps were taken by a remote, motorised helicopter in which case they may have confused it with a giant bee and dreams of lakes of honey about round the camp.

We need Bruce Parry in a situation like this.  I imagine there can't be that many spots on earth which house such tribes,  It's quite startling that in this global, connected village with millions upon millions of tracking devices such peoples exist - can you squeeze your brains hard enough to think of that occurring in the UK?

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