In a message dated 4/4/01 6:44:37 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
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<< Stupid aborigines who didn't know how to farm may have been on to something
 after all.
  >>
Not stupid at all, of course. Having just read Bruce Chatwin's book
"Songlines", one realizes how complex and sophisticated these so called
"primitive" peoples were. To the extent that we simply cannot comprehend
them, which is something of a joke in itself. Any culture that can devise the
concept of songlines, and I not sure that I fully understand this, is
certainly not stupid, or primitive. The stupid people are the people who fail
to understand, i.e., us.  As I quoted before -- these people have what we
have lost.

Charles
San Diego, CA