Allen Grace 4 on Practice of the Wild 2

In Tawny Grammer, Synder talks almost explicitly on eskimos and inuit peoples. How isolated the Kobuk people are. Yet their culture is getting penetrated by American culture, as is the rest of the world. This is problematic, because their way of life will soon be done with. Computers and video cameras litter the schools, while children are increasingly learning American traits and abandoning the tradition life. As talked about in class American societty maintains a largely uncritical faith in the notion of a continuing unfolding process. Also a point is made about how philosophy and myth have been entertwined since the beginning. He also talks about the difference between civilization and un/non-civilization. Reading books, and being static in a sense of land ownership, exploitation, and a sedentary lifestyle. I just wonder why civilization is so much better than say how the Native Americans lived. I would think it would be a much better life style, not being marketed too, tracked, harassed, and being bombarded by bullshit every turn in the corner. Consumerism sucks, and capitalism is just as bad. Yet this is all perpetuated by those people who have the power, and the societal acknowledgement that small rectangles of green, and now purple paper have any worth to it. (The greenback has gone to hell, in a handbasket may i add).