Okay, I'm back now in the Bay [not the land part -- the actual Bay [blub, blub]], frittering my days away in front of a computer. So breathe easy, more posting to come.
I just encountered one interesting theme and noted it in my little head, and then ran into it again and figured it had to be really earth-shattering, so I'll recount it now. First, I saw this article in New Scientist about a new type of environmentalism: moderate and realistic. The deal is that lots of environmental groups have abandoned the no-harm-to-the-environment-ever strategy in favor of a more politically expedient and also humanistic strategy. The advantages are twofold: 1] you turn off fewer people when you say you want to save some of the whales rather than every single damn one; and 2] you alienate fewer people by sacrificing their jobs to the whales.
Snippet from the beginning of the story, entitled 'A greyer shade of green'. [Nevermind that the English can't spell their own fuckin' language.]
'Being green is no longer black and white. Major conservation groups are beginning to realise [spellcheck, you damn limeys!] that their old, hard-line protectionist approach simpy doesn't work, says Fred Pearce
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'But [a proposed ban on catching live fish via a means that hurts coral reefs] is meeting opposition from an unexpected quarter: the Philippines branch of the WWF [no, not Hulk Hogan], the world's foremost conservation body, with backing from its internatinal headquarters in Geneva.
'Hard to credit? A betrayal? Well, hold your fire -- the WWF is just one among many science-based environment groups that are engaged in a savage reappraisal of their philosophy. In their self-imposed task of saving everythign from rainforests and medicinal plants to elephants and whales, they are coming to a heretical conclusion: conservatino -- at least in its hard-line forms -- is its own worst enemy. Far from saving endangered species and their habitats, it often accelerates their destruction, because it alientates local people and forces trade underground.'
And blah, blah, it goes on with some details and evidence and shit like that. I think this is a good change, myself. Environmentalism is about [ahem, should be about] producing good effects, not just striking the most uncompromising poses and kvetching with the shrillest voices. What is that saying about a teaspoon of honey and a teaspoon of vinegar? [Am I getting this right? Anyone who emails me a correction will be the subject of an upcoming adoring 'color' column in thinkness.]
Then, while reading Breaking Open the Head, a dope book about modern shamanism through psychedelic drugs, I come across a part about 'Ayahuasca tourism', in which well-off Westerners pay a bunch of money to South American shamans ['shamen'?] who lead them through the process of taking ayahuasca, a potent psychedelic also known as yage. Some people say that this ayahuasca tourism is bad for these old-school native tribes because it's commercializing their culture and bringing too many industrial-tainted people into the jungle and blah, blah. Daniel Pinchbeck, the author, disagrees:
'It seems to me that these perspectives are shortsighted, not only because the shamans [okay, fine: 'shamans'] themselves have the vision of sharing their knowledge with Westerners, but also because yage tourism, if it is done conscientiously, is a force that can help to preserve indigenous traditions at this point. This is what seems to be happening with the Secoya. There are not going to be any "pure" Indian cultures anymore, certainly no illiterate ones. After decades of seeing their cultures trashed by missionaries, assaulted by Western governments, overrun by corporate greed, the Indians need to know that certain groups of rich Westerners value their knowledge and history. The yage tours are, in fact, beneficial to both sides: The shamans desperately need the revenue, and we, equally desperately, need the revelations.'
If you read the book and the article [or simply take my word, credulous reader] you would see that comparing these two theses is particularly apt because Pinchbeck talks a lot about the Amazonian environment and the New Sci article talks about tours to go see gorillas and shit in Africa. I like this trend. I am aware that it's sort of weird to say that this other culture, or this other race, is something we'll pay money to go look at. Is that the gorilla's function, or even worse, is that the shaman's function? 'Hey, hop into the service economy, Don Caesario!'
But we need the better elements of the West to come forward and interact with the world. Currently, most of what developing countries see of America is oil companies. Globalization is going to happen, whether we like it or not. We might as well try to make it a mixed bag, rather than purely a flaming shitbag left on most of the world's doorstep. Didn't globalization used to be an ideal?
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