Originally Posted by
tony de wonderful
These cultures are dead. What you see now is just a facsimile, people dressing up and pretending. It was impossible for these belief systems to survive monotheism, the influx of euro people intact. Just like if men from Mars landed now it would screw up our belief systems and make the obsolete.
I find it rather sad that these simple lives are virtually extinct. The pantheistic philosophy of some Native American tribes was inspiring, sustainable and didn't require the eternal invigilation of Abrahamic monotheism. I suffer cognitive dissonance when trying to square my admiration for the Constitution and the Declaration with the demise of the natives.