Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 15:53:00 +0100
From: Stefano Moretti <S.Moretti@agora.stm.it>
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
Subject: Re: baidarka Inuit cosmology
> skip snaith wrote:
>
> > As Bob Dylan said, "The times, they are a changin...". One reality is
> > that this generation of elders, people who lived the old life first
> > hand, is the last one, and culture bearing will need to be a concious
> > act among the people in the coming millenium
I can share almost every word of Skip's, especially having a "sense of
history". Yet this last sentence is very in contradiction. It states in
fact that history goes only one way.
The romans had brought to England warm flowing waters in at least
patrice mansions at their times, yet in the medieval times the britts
had no Jacuzzi's at home.
Warm water had to wait for the eighteenth century to flow back in
Englands bath tubs.
As for my perception, we (westerners) are doing a great deal to bring
back tradition through globalization.
A few decades more and we will probably live a defiitely more primitive
life.
(i!)
With the words of Mr Einstein: "I ignore with what weapons will the 3d
world war be fought. I know what the 4th will be fought with: clubs".
So perhaps we will have more seals and kayak hunting in some future..
Stefano, sympathising with Gene's symbolism