But the western definition of poverty has been incapable of distinguishing "poverty" as a conscious lifestyle, a culture that would thrive perfectly fine, were it not that it is under pressure exactly because it is not allowed to exist in the western paradigm.
Well, we abuse ourselves with that as much as we abuse anyone else.
Without writing out a long narrative, it was interesting while traveling to see money as simply one of many variables in people's quality of life, and the ability to see it that way wasn't so much from being absorbed into another culture as it was not being completely levered into my own.
you are the media you consume.
Without writing out a long narrative,
grr, write it already! ;)
you have a curiously unique slant on travel, millman, i would love to read what you're carrying in your memories.
maybe you are still integrating... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
Do not remember what happened though, maybe he is still walking the swedish forests, eating his berries. A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
i knew a guy who drove a 1920's tractor down to italy from germany hauling a gypsy caravan, all on back roads!
the mind boggles. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
