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29 Jan 09
29 Jan 09
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Originally posted by Sam The ShamYes, the John Frum cult mentioned in the article I posted.
This is a cargo cult:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmlYe2KS0-Y
Thanks for the link. Doesn't their adulation of America warm your heart? For once, the savages are grateful. (By the way, you should get in touch with barflewk -- his comment exactly echoes the one you edited out! -- although it's expressed more strongly, to be sure).
I can think of one example of cargo-cult thinking in popular culture: Field of Dreams. "If you build it, he will come ... " Any others?
29 Jan 09
Originally posted by Bosse de NageGive them time. Eventually they will claim that they were very advanced thousands of years ago, that they taught early europeans everything they knew, and the reason they are so backward now is because all their natural resources were stolen from them. Or something like that, it's a familiar story.
Thanks for the link. Doesn't their adulation of America warm your heart? For once, the savages are grateful.
29 Jan 09
Originally posted by Sam The ShamOK, if you say so.
Give them time. Eventually they will claim that they were very advanced thousands of years ago, that they taught early europeans everything they knew, and the reason they are so backward now is because all their natural resources were stolen from them. Or something like that, it's a familiar story.