Posted on 01/15/2026 10:18:28 PM PST by nickcarraway
Never-before-seen high-definition footage of an uncontacted Amazonian tribe has surfaced in a recent interview between an American conservationist and podcaster Lex Fridman.
Author Paul Rosolie has spent two decades working in the Amazon and says the moment was one of the most profound experiences he’s ever had.
“In order for any of this to make sense, I had to show you this footage … This has not been shown ever before. This is a world first,” he told Fridman.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
In Clouseau style/accent:
"Noat anymoe."
Were the chicks topless? You know, National Geographic style?
The Amazon is seen by romantic idiots as the garden of Eden but it means living in poverty where you die from malaria yellow fever, childbirth or after minor injuries. And run by chefs wh are dictators with power of life and death if you dont obey them.
And the Amazon was once a fairly developed area and not primitive. Apparantly the diseases brought by the Spanish spread via trade routes and depopulated the area. So these are the survivors whose culture became primitive.
To them, we are all Jehovah's Witnesses.
There is a documentary about an uncontacted Amazon tribe which left the jungle for civilization. It began with them making sporadic contact with anthropologists and eventually moving into government supplied housing with medical care and etc. In the beginning, they were nearly naked, as those in this video are, but they quickly adopted all sorts of amusing cast off western clothing, like Mets and and Lakers T shirts. This turned out to be civilization’s greatest blessing, according to one of them, who said that without it they were never quite comfortable most of the time, especially at night.
There is a huge commentary on modern society there, humorous though it is.
The bearded conservationist, Paul Rosolie, has an interesting web site:
https://paulrosolie.com/conservationist
Ping!
That there is rigid collectivism. Contribute or die.
EC
“””””who said that without it they were never quite comfortable most of the time, especially at night.”””””
We almost never hear of such good things, for example how Indian women reacted to metal cooking pots, or the men to metal tools and weapons.
Interesting article, they have a noble mission to protect the river and the jungle people but that’s not going to happen when there is money involved.
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