you had before any contact. no, that s oversimplification. they should change at their own rate, change if you want to, or not if you don t want to. we had endless conversations a0 years ago, when i first met him, when he was a full hunter gatherer, and his family had never met an outsider before. and they lived this wonderful hunter gathering life, which is very sustainable, and how we all lived for the first few 100,000 years of our existence. and he and i discussed at length whether he should settle. huge pressure from the government to settle, opportunity for the children to go to school, opportunity to have medicines. we had a big expedition with doctors on it and nurses, and they came and camped outside our base camp,
and he and i discussed at length whether he should settle. huge pressure from the government to settle, opportunity for the children to go to school, opportunity to have medicines. we had a big expedition with doctors on it and nurses, and they came and camped outside our base camp, and they were treated by the doctors for minor ailments that they had. and i travelled with him and we got to know each other very, very well. but i ve always felt a huge guilt about what happened later, which was that he and all the other nomadic groups who were in the area gradually came in and were settled in a village. and life has not been easy for them ever since. but wasn t that a choice they made? it was a choice they made because i didn t tempt them into the camp. i said, come and work with me and see what goes on. but we discussed the difficulties and i said, it s going to be as hard for you to. ..to transition to this sort of life, as it would be for me to live like you do.
character and culture you had before any contact. no, that s oversimplification. they should change at their own rate, change if you want to, or not if you don t want to. we had endless conversations a0 years ago, when i first met him, when he was a full hunter gatherer, and his family had never met an outsider before. and they lived this wonderful hunter gathering life, which is very sustainable, and how we all lived for the first few 100,000 years of our existence. and he and i discussed at length whether he should settle. huge pressure from the government to settle, opportunity for the children to go to school, opportunity to have medicines. we had a big expedition with doctors on it and nurses, and they came and camped outside our base camp, and they were treated by the doctors for minor ailments that they had. and i travelled with him and we got to know each other very, very well. but i ve always felt a huge guilt about what happened later, which was that he and all the other noma
that you were emailing with him not so long ago. not something that he would have done in his hunter gatherer culture. so, again, it seems he embraced change when your message to many of these peoples around the world is that we shouldn t change you, you should entirely retain the identity, character and culture you had before any contact. no, that s oversimplification. they should change at their own rate, change if you want to, or not if you don t want to. we had endless conversations a0 years ago, when i first met him, when he was a full hunter gatherer, and his family had never met an outsider before. and they lived this wonderful hunter gathering life, which is very sustainable, and how we all lived for the first few 100,000 years of our existence. and he and i discussed at length whether he should settle. huge pressure from the government to settle, opportunity for the children to go to school, opportunity to have medicines. we had a big expedition with doctors on it and nurses,
rate, change if you want to, or not if you don t want to. we had endless conversations a0 years ago, when i first met him, when he was a full hunter gatherer, and his family had never met an outsider before. and they lived this wonderful hunter gathering life, which is very sustainable, and how we all lived for the first few 100,000 years of our existence. and he and i discussed at length whether he should settle. huge pressure from the government to settle, opportunity for the children to go to school, opportunity to have medicines. we had a big expedition with doctors on it and nurses, and they came and camped outside our base camp, and they were treated by the doctors for minor ailments that they had. and i travelled with him and we got to know each other very, very well. but i ve always felt a huge guilt about what happened later, which was that he and all the other nomadic groups who were in the area gradually came in and were settled in a village. and life has not been easy for t