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They weren't 'poor', they were FREE

posted 11 years ago by sabar-1
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I'm not sure what to make of some of the comments here. I don't have much experience with delta people, but I do have experience with Appalachians, and there is quite a bit of common ground here. I've known many mountain people who eventually were forced to come down and move north to take blue collar jobs. They ended up living in basic, standard cookie cutter houses, with heat and electricity, buying food from grocers, etc.

They were utterly miserable.

Although "dirt" poor - which would be unacceptable to many of you - they knew and appreciated the beauty of their former lives. The wildflowers, the lack of artificial noise, the freedom to befriend any and all animals, etc.

I work in a hospital and I will never look at all the people "plugged into the wall" in the same way again - I will feel sorry that they cannot die on their own terms.

Rachel

[–] Strazdamonas 10 years ago

if that is freedom, i welcome our bondage overlords. they were not free. they were ignorant.

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[–] sabar-1 10 years ago

Depends on your definition of "ignorant". One of the best parts to me was the beginning which showed her understanding of the natural world around her. Our society has lost so much of that. The largest theme of the whole thing was knowing how to survive. Those skills are not ignorant.

Rachel

[–] Strazdamonas 10 years ago

but they DIDNT knew how to survive. they were merely scavenging and then drinking themselves to death or trying to float during a hurricane. there was no survivalism in there, merely ignorance. Ignorant is clearly defined, its one who lacks knowledge. and they clearly did lack of knowledge. as far as natural understading, they have shown none of that except for the woman who i assume was the teacher. even then she used plenty of superstition and passed it out as knowledge.

or do you mean their imagined prehistoric beasts that served as allegory for the destruction of their village? because if we take it literally thats not knowledge, thats lunacy.

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[–] kellycallie (728) 6 years ago

The bathtub people were practically feral and didn't wan't to enter mainstream society with the laws and customs.