tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post8333566322846430056..comments2024-01-19T04:29:08.081-06:00Comments on subrealism: chicken/egg?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-35312204323346582012-03-29T14:52:20.368-05:002012-03-29T14:52:20.368-05:00Don't you love how he chalks up the following ...Don't you love how he chalks up the following occurrence to a Piraha "problem with alcohol"?I woke up about midnight and heard them saying that a Brazilian trader <br />had given them whisky and a new shotgun to kill my family. They were <br />saying: "I'm not afraid I will kill the American." So I got up and I <br />went through the jungle to where they were talking. I knew they had all <br />been drinking, so I just walked in and said: "Hello, how are you doing?"<br /> and started grabbing up the bows and arrows and the shotgun. By the <br />time they realised what was going on I had everything in my arms and was<br /> back in my house. And so they came, and they were fighting with one <br />another and, as I was walking back to my house I heard a voice to my <br />side from the jungle say: "I'm going to kill you right now" and it was a<br /> Piraha man and I thought I was going get either an arrow or a shotgun <br />blast to the face when I turned around, but he was just standing there <br />unarmed. And just drunk. And so I didn't get killed. But the next day <br />they all apologised, and they said: "Alcohol does funny things with our <br />head" and I said: "It does with everybody's heads, but I don't want this<br /> around my family, we can leave or you can not do this again." So they <br />said: "OK, we promise not to do it again." But they did!CNuhttp://subrealism.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-59311062996206003512012-03-29T14:09:15.724-05:002012-03-29T14:09:15.724-05:00I bet these folks got the "Dummy Up Genocide ...I bet these folks got the "Dummy Up Genocide Memo" that was passed around. The first chapter says something about "Mum's the word when you see a guy with a little black book. Act like you know NOTHING...and they'll go away, but if you talk to them, your children will fall for the stories in their book, they'll take your land and make you work for them in a sweat shop. Shhhhh!!! Remember...act dumber than a box of rocks!!"Temple3http://temple3.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com