The other night I saw on Current, the new satellite television founded by Al Gore based on the concept of "common reporter," a service set up by an Asian girl on a particular Amazonian village. This community consists of several groups of indigenous people "evicted" from the deforestation of their region, joined by an international organization in a single village, with the obligation to keep intact their traditions and customs against the advance of the clearing.
Interesting and well done that service: maggiornaza pity that the men of the village showing off colorful slip-style "American Apparell, which they drive a lot of huge tractors "John Deer" and all that - I say all - the huts were equipped with satellite dish. Asked about the latter, the hard-working American guy in charge of the field with wide smiles that says "yes, even the natives watching TV for two hours a day and not lose any episode of a soap opera very popular in Brazil lately. So they can to have a contact with reality. " In reality, you know? A population that has lived for millennia in contact with nature, eating roast armadillo and celebrating weddings with a simple handshake, now forms the western culture as the sole reference using a soap opera. Like the rest of Western culture, for that matter .. And the presence of tractors and generators, which only exist in the village to feed the TV, constantly requires new fuel, resulting in a continuous indigenous and pressing need for money. The risk they run is that if they do not earn enough money to begin to sell the forest for economic purposes, becoming (in the words of young American) "a danger to the health of the forest."
There is something wrong in this mechanism: individuals who are at risk of extinction because of sinister interests become carriers of the same, to secure a new episode of a soap opera. It 's like a panda to become a bully because, to save it from extinction, they gave him a paio di Nike ed ora non possa più farne a meno. O un gorilla di montagna accetti di riprodursi solo se non alterano la sua dieta a base di Big Mac. C'è il rischio che nell'arco di una generazione venga perduta per sempre l'esperienza di interi millenni di umanità esule, merito di chi per evitare un contagio decide di infettare tutti: alcuni la chiamano vaccinazione.
Mal comune mezzo gaudio.
