Explorer Wade Davis on our amazing "ethnosphere":TEDTalks

Regenerative Culture Spiritual Technology
#1

this is an amazing video, he talks about the wisdom of tribal peoples.

http://video.google.com/url?docid=7835963370880548002&esrc=sr1&ev=v&q=Wade+davis+explorer&vidurl=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DbL7vK0pOvKI&usg=AL29H21YjxR0pUpiE09DMZMx87uHxGB4_A

#2

Thanks for sharing this, NTR. I had read about the shit knife before from another source, and even blogged about it, but I wasn’t familiar with the TED series.

#3

That link no longer works, but this appears to be the same clip: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/wade_davis_on_endangered_cultures.html

I’d never heard of Wade Davis before, but it looks as though I’ll have to read some of his work.

#4

SHIT! ;D

#5

Granted, he is a pretentious, civilized white dude with highly questionable scholarship. His work isn’t high on my list of priorities, but there could be some useful stuff there.

#6

i don’t understand how him being white has to do with anything.

#7

Civilization still privileges white people, though I do believe this is becoming less prevalent. As a white (reformed liberal) man in the South of the US with mostly poor, black neighbors I’m uncomfortably aware of such things.

#8

civilized, wealthy and pretentious, sure. but i don’t think it’s the color of his skin that makes his work any less legit. it’s civilization that’s the problem, not race.

of course we’re really still on the same page. it just rubs me the wrong way when i hear people complain about privileged white people. when it comes down to it, it isn’t the hue of our skin that makes us any more or less “privileged”, it’s civilization. we’re all just eating varying flavors of the same poo.

#9

So true. We all have our “roles” to play, as cogs in the machine.

#10

I posted the same video today over here.
http://www.rewild.info/conversations/index.php?topic=1413.msg14666#msg14666

Glad to know someone besides myself had an appreciation for this presentation.

Personally, privileged or no, I’m very glad he is working to preserve these cultures.

Seems to me this man lives more outside of “civ” than inside, yet he has the ability to be a bridge - to experience the wealth and beauty of these cultures and bring it back to the “civilized” world in such a way that he is an agent in preserving them.

Don’t see a problem with that.