> ravi wrote:
>
>>given the pro-industrial pro-modern-world position of most of the
>>posts on this thread (a kind of russellian pooh-pooh'ing of
>>primitivism?) i am curious about what folks think about bodley's
>>work on tribal people (for eg his interesting book: victims of
>>progress) who, if he is to be believed, lived a life without these
>>factories and fancy medical devices, that seem to be inalienable, in
>>a sustainable manner.
>
> Kind of late for all that now, isn't it?
>
probably yes, at least for us (and since we probably will not leave the tribals alone, probably for them too). so is your point a pragmatic one?
--ravi (just trying to understand the argument)