Getting Away From It All ?
What do peopole think of this guy below:
http://www.details.com/culture-trends/c ... ro-dollars I myself have thoughts of living a similar lifestyle and so far I have gotten rid of television, no mobile phone and I always hated them anyway, no internet in the house, no designer clothes, no jewellery which was easy as I've never worn any anyway, no credit card, again simple as I've never spent more than I have. The quote below is from an article about him and I find it very interesting what he claims about wealth and health.
"The tribe had been getting richer for a decade, and during the two years he was there he watched as the villagers began to adopt the economics of modernity. They sold the food from their fields—quinoa, potatoes, corn, lentils—for cash, which they used to purchase things they didn't need, as Suelo describes it. They bought soda and white flour and refined sugar and noodles and big bags of MSG to flavor the starchy meals. They bought TVs. The more they spent, says Suelo, the more their health declined. He could measure the deterioration on his charts. "It looked," he says, "like money was impoverishing them."
Ie the more wealth in a country the more bad health you have. This is borne out by an article I read a few years ago now that people who used to live to a ripe old age in simple more primitive cultures (i'll try and find it), well as soon as modernity creeps in the number of people living into their hundreds falls away and depression and suicide which were never real apparent problems start to become so. I heard an Inuit man talking about his own son in a programme and his worries about drugs and suicide that were becoming more of a problem amongst young men in that culture as their traditions fall by the wayside in favour of technology. They have no place or identity anymore like their fathers had so they drink and alcoholism can become a problem, depression can set in and more than average mental health problems rear their ugly head. This happens in all misplaced cultures and it's quite heart breaking when you think of a once proud people being reduced to these circumstances just because they don't like to live like we do.
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