Posted on 04/22/2005 8:48:47 AM PDT by FlyLow
A new MTV series features Hollywood celebrities praising the developing world's primitive lifestyles as earth-friendly -- despite those poor nations' high infant mortality rates and short life expectancies.
The eco-tourism show, called "Trippin'," premiered on March 28 and was heavily promoted in the runup to Earth Day. The show encourages environmental awareness and lauds traditional tribal lifestyles, which lack running water, electricity and other basic infrastructure.
The MTV series features actress Cameron Diaz and a rotating crew of "her close, personal friends [who] think globally and act globally." They tour developing nations, incuding Nepal, Bhutan, Tanzania, Honduras and visit remote villages in Chile.
Actress Drew Barrymore, who reportedly earns $15 million a film, told MTV viewers in one episode that after spending time in a primitive, electricity-free Chilean village, "I aspire to be like them more."
Barrymore, apparently enthralled by the lack of a modern sanitary facilities, gleefully bragged, "I took a poo in the woods hunched over like an animal. It was awesome."
The 32-year-old Diaz, who earns a reported $20-million a movie, boasted that the cow-dung slathered walls of a Nepalese village hut were "beautiful" and "inspiring," and she called the primitive practice of "pounding mud" with sticks to construct a building foundation "the coolest thing."
Diaz also criticized the lifestyles of many Americans after visiting an indigenous village in Chile. "It's kinda gotten out of hand how much convenience we think we need," she said.
Despite the celebrities' praise for the primitive life, "Trippin'" shows them flying on multiple airplanes and chartering at least two helicopters and one boat to reach remote locations over the course of the first four episodes.
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"I thought her career completely flushed with Tom Green's."
Maybe, but at least Green wrote a scathing memoir about Hollywood and Barrymore. He talked about how all the snobbish Hollywood guests at their wedding ignored all of his relatives because they weren't famous.
This coming from the same network that gives us "MTV Cribs."
i wonder if they would have went there if there were no cameras around. i doubt it.
ah recalls that urban legend about Mariah Carey seeing starving African children. She was misquoted (or it was totally made up) that she said "it would good be to be skinny but not with all those flies and stuff"
How does paying a tax offset pollution?
"I took a poo in the woods hunched over like an animal. It was awesome."
I'm sincerely hoping she used Sumac leaves to tidy up afterwards. |
"She and her comrades seem to view third world people as quaint zoo specimens to preserve in their squalor and poverty so the "better and more beautiful" people may go and view them."
Dittos. Well said.
I do think we should get more back to basics. But, not at the expense of our health. I write this on my computer with my dsl connection after taking a shower, loading the dishwasher, and putting a load of laundry in my washer.
TOILET PAPER????!! You call that roughing it? You pampered woosie!
How does paying a tax offset pollution?
It doesn't, but if you're one of the braindeads who watch MTV (or Drew Barrymore movies for that matter), you just nod in your marijuana haze and say "Like, wow...far out." |
I have gone to some of the Middle Ages war re-enactments for SCA. The one thing I always had a problem with was camping because I have this love of modern plumbing.
"Tanzania..."
Wonderif the idiot Diaz noticed the Massi (sp?) tribesmen and their children? They're the tall lanky cattle herders there that live on mostly a liquid diet of milk and blood. Tetnus (lockjaw) is so rampant among them since they walk barefoot in manure that they knock out their childrens front teeth when they erupt in order they can still eat when they get lockjaw. Suffice it to say, few survive at that.
Does a Barrymore sh-- in the woods?
Now that's just funny!
There are far too many priceless quotes from Diaz to keep me laughing for hours. I never took her for an intellectual but, damn!
Here's another gem, "These people (Bhutan) have decided that keeping the cranes in their valley is more important than having the convenience of electricity,"
Electricity isn't really important when one does not posess any electrical appliances.
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