Uncivilized?!!
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Loading ...December 31, 2007 Filed Under: Lost Entries 403 words
Right now I’m watching a program, The Gods Must Be Crazy on On Demand. It’s about an uncivilized family that received a gift from the gods. The gift was a Coca Cola bottle!
Anyways, the reason I’m sharing this is because of something funny that one of the men did. They found many uses for the bottle and eventually began to feel emotions they had never felt–jealousy, rage, envy–because there was only one bottle. Everything they had before was always readily available an abundant. Two of the women began fighting over the bottle, one hit the other with it, and then they both started crying.
One of the men resorted to throwing the bottle back to the gods. When it started to come back down, he shouted to everyone to look out. Then he threw the bottle up in the air again. He shouted look out again, but it hit his daughter in the head. I started cracking up!
He decided the gods didn’t want to take it back, so he was going to bury it. He buried it, a hyena dug it up overnight (smelled the blood from the daughter’s head on it) and a warthog chased the hyena away, causing it to drop the bottle right beside the campsite.
When they woke up, they decided that the gods were angry with them, and one man said he would walk to the end of the Earth to throw the bottle away. Another man said that it will take a long time, and supposed that he would have to walk for “20, maybe 40″ days. He said he’ll do it!
Imagine if we lived in such an uncivilized society. I can’t say that it would be better or worse than life as I know it. For one, they seem to live in peace with plenty of freedom. They don’t have to worry about wearing clothes, they apologize to the animals that they are about to kill for food, and they don’t have any problems with possessions. On the other hand, they’re kind of dumb. I think even if I didn’t know anything about gravity, once I threw the bottle in the air and it came back down, I would think the same thing would happen again. They must have tremendous faith in their gods to believe they would take the bottle back to fix the problems it was causing.
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