This is how one thinks when one is divorced from reality.
I live in the contemporary reality. In this case north Australia, where governments introduced housing, civil serices, and western products became available, both good and bad. I observed the reaction in its entirety, part of that representing government and documenting the process.
What went wrong, and in fact continues to go wrong, is that ignorant white people fail to comprehend their own culture and, for example, provide houses but do not teach people how to live healthily in these, or provide employment but fail to explain the rationale behind the employment/remuneration process. Addressing the latter, the 300 year industrial revolution transitioned us from landless serfs to paid workers, but a trade is thus established. We apply for the job, become employed, turn up on the job site, expend our energy for several hours and, in return for that labour, get paid a reasonable but (union) regulated remuneration portion of gross productivity (from which the cost of site rent, administration costs, transport costs, taxes, and so on, have already been deducted by our accountant). If the quality of our labour is unprofitable, we get sacked.
When this process was introduced, supervisors and planners failed to understand that this full continuity must be explained to people who have not been conditioned by the 300 year transition. Thus, Aborigines in traditional communities aspire to and apply for jobs, get selected, and turn up in the prescribed work site. As with one woman, she immediately curls up and goes to sleep. Productivity is sometimes zilch. White supervisors mutter about lazy blackfellers, not realising they have failed to recognise the cross-cultural situation. They have failed to mention the trade-off of personal energy for money.
In the broader community, there is an expectation of goods, services, and rights, that are entirely divorced from the transactional reality, thus creating a cargo cult. Clearly, the fault is white stupidity and incomptence, not endemic indigenous sub-inteligence as so many Europeans believe.
I have tried to explain this to governments for fifty years and until a few months ago, failed to encounter a single European in authority who has sufficient intelligence to grasp the message. Ergo, cargo cult is created by European ignorance, ethnocentricity, and appalling ignorance. As we speak, Europe as disintegrating for this very reason., never to recover. And I say, good riddance. But Americans will have little time to gloat because the same blindness to reality is destroying the US.
This is how one thinks when one is divorced from reality.
I live in the contemporary reality. In this case north Australia, where governments introduced housing, civil serices, and western products became available, both good and bad. I observed the reaction in its entirety, part of that representing government and documenting the process.
What went wrong, and in fact continues to go wrong, is that ignorant white people fail to comprehend their own culture and, for example, provide houses but do not teach people how to live healthily in these, or provide employment but fail to explain the rationale behind the employment/remuneration process. Addressing the latter, the 300 year industrial revolution transitioned us from landless serfs to paid workers, but a trade is thus established. We apply for the job, become employed, turn up on the job site, expend our energy for several hours and, in return for that labour, get paid a reasonable but (union) regulated remuneration portion of gross productivity (from which the cost of site rent, administration costs, transport costs, taxes, and so on, have already been deducted by our accountant). If the quality of our labour is unprofitable, we get sacked.
When this process was introduced, supervisors and planners failed to understand that this full continuity must be explained to people who have not been conditioned by the 300 year transition. Thus, Aborigines in traditional communities aspire to and apply for jobs, get selected, and turn up in the prescribed work site. As with one woman, she immediately curls up and goes to sleep. Productivity is sometimes zilch. White supervisors mutter about lazy blackfellers, not realising they have failed to recognise the cross-cultural situation. They have failed to mention the trade-off of personal energy for money.
In the broader community, there is an expectation of goods, services, and rights, that are entirely divorced from the transactional reality, thus creating a cargo cult. Clearly, the fault is white stupidity and incomptence, not endemic indigenous sub-inteligence as so many Europeans believe.
I have tried to explain this to governments for fifty years and until a few months ago, failed to encounter a single European in authority who has sufficient intelligence to grasp the message. Ergo, cargo cult is created by European ignorance, ethnocentricity, and appalling ignorance. As we speak, Europe as disintegrating for this very reason., never to recover. And I say, good riddance. But Americans will have little time to gloat because the same blindness to reality is destroying the US.