http://mises.org/daily/6138/The-Tyranny-of-the-Cultural-Curators
Very important piece here. I regularly read National Geographic, and they occasionally have pieces about "primitive cultures" or whatever you call them, and I've always been uneasy about them because they draw the opposite conclusion of this article. I remember one article about a remote tribe in the mountains of Mexico who was just beginning to interact with the outside world. They asked one of the oldest women in the tribe what she wanted the most, presumably expecting her to say something like "for the outsiders to pack up all their pollution and leave us alone to live in peace and harmony with nature."
Her actual answer? A refrigerator.
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