I'm with you. What drives me particularly nuts is those do good nitwits who are trying to 'protect' indigenous people from the dreaded 'modern world'.
They never bother to ask those 'primitive societies frolicking in the (insert wherever they are here)' of they would prefer some modern dental care, like to make it so half of their children don't die from some dreadful disease, drink some clean water, etc etc.
It's the epitomy of arrogance if you ask me.
Instead they want to keep them backwards, ignorant, and dying young.
L
As a big post-collegiate conservationist in the early '60s, Michael Rockefeller went around photographing the local natives on Papua New Guinea who had just barely abandoned the old practice of headhunting and witchcraft. At some point in contact with them, Rockefeller traded one of the native tribes several iron camping hatchets in exchange for a genuine shrunken head. He then told them that he'd be willing to pay the same price for other shrunken heads that the natives would bring.
Michael Rockefeller continued his travels in PNG and was presumed lost at sea when his adventure party's dugout canoe got swamped and Rockefeller -- an Ivy League swim team champ -- elected to swim to shore. He was thought to have drowned or been eaten by sharks in his attempt to make landfall.
Several years later, a French anthropologist visiting the natives of Papua New Guinea allegedly noticed one of their high shamans with a broken pair of horn-rimmed nerd glasses woven into in his tribal headgear. The shaman said that they came from an 'important wizard' who was killed by a headhunting party that eagerly took up the practice again because they heard that a whiteskin was paying a fortune of inconceivable wealth for fresh shrunken heads.
I don't know if the French anthropologists' account is true, but if it is you can probably guess the rest of the story.
I sometimes wonder at the possibility of a noble savage of Papua New Guinea who just might have saved the people of the United States from having another four-eyed know-it-all blueblood poindexter liberal Democrat carpetbagger of a US Senator inflicted upon us ... One that was too stupid to realize that his negotiation practice sparked a headhunting frenzy in Papua New Guinea that ultimately ended in his own demise.