Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-01-26]: The National Indian Foundation (Funai) in Brazil released photographs of an isolated tribe in the Amazon which does not maintain any contact with the outside world, although aware of it. The photographs contain images of children and adults holding bows and arrows while watching the helicopter which was used to photograph them and they were circulated to mobilized the world against illegal logging. [source: Internet Source 1] Why do some people wanting to live in their own "world" is reason for us to stop growing? We can destroy the Amazon forest and impose ourselfs on these primitive tribes. But is it right to do so? If some aliens ever decide to destroy the Earth in order for them to spread (as we dissolve the Amazon forest for the same reason), would we like it? In any case, are these tribes really "primitive" as we think they are? Harmony in the universe is something that many mysticists taught for thousands of years. Western science ridiculed them for thousands of years. After 2,000 years we started to think if we were wrong...
Related articles for further reading: The Limits of Science, Harmonia Philosophica
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