Chekov's squeeze...
Posted on 05/02/2020 6:23:46 AM PDT by rktman
Recently, I re-watched a 1969 episode entitled "The Way to Eden" in which the Enterprise rescues some space-age hippies searching for the quasi-mythical planet of Eden. The hippies, determined to live in peace and harmony with nature, take over the Enterprise to locate Eden. But when they land a shuttle on the planet, they find their paradise – as beautiful as it is – is deadly, with all the vegetation so acidic that it burns their skin and kills anyone who eats the fruit.
The Tribal Gathering website touts the superiority of indigenous cultures over Western culture ("Let's put an end to injustice and work together to ensure environmental and social balance") and includes a quote from someone named Autumn Peltier: "Kids all over the world have to pay for mistakes we didn't even make. This is our future. We're the next leaders. This is our future."
Now, however, it appears the hippies are having trouble in paradise. After two weeks of utopia – swimming in tropical waters, dancing to drums, participating in psychedelic trances, building organic driftwood structures, massages, meditation and otherwise "detoxifying" mind, body and soul (while the local population provided them with food, water and toilet facilities) – the festival participants learned they couldn't go home due to pandemic travel restrictions, leaving dozens of international attendees stranded on the beach without food, cleaning products, or "tobacco."
"If you want to eat food here, you have to buy it," the horrified participants were told by an organizer, who added that those unable to afford to buy food would have the option of performing manual labor in exchange for meals. Stealing food would not be tolerated.
"At first it was like paradise," said one man. "But when you are locked in, it is not paradise anymore."
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I wonder who funded this bash? I remember when young leftists used to go to Cube to chop sugarcane and establish ‘solidarity’ with the workers. Then they came back and ran for Congress. Venceramos Brigades they were called.
Reminds me of the ‘celebrities’ going to spend the weekend in the homeless camps so they would “know” what it’s like. Easy when you can go back to your enclave and bathe and order out on Sunday night.
>>”At first it was like paradise,” said one man. “But when you are locked in, it is not paradise anymore.”
Nature is very harsh. especially in the desert where sources of food and water are scarce.
The toxins produced by some plants and animals are far deadlier than any manmade creation.
Should have been under the boot of a HUAC.
They talk about how man is an invasive species. So are animals, plants, and microbiol life forms.
Chekov's squeeze...
Do not confuse the Star Trek episode with the Austrian documentary Der Weg nach Eden (1995), about human autopsy.
It reminds me of that Tom Cruise movie, “The Last Samurai.” When he’s staying in this little village being cared for by the locals, and he’s wandering around, watching them all work, and reflecting on what a paradise this is... he didn’t have to work. He was convalescing, if I remember correctly, so he’s watching women gracefully cleaning clothes in the river, and men hoe the fields, and ... yeah, it’s really lovely... to WATCH. Then pretty girls bring him food.
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Sounds like a “Lord of the Flies” scenario.
I was thinking more like the Manson Family at Spahn Ranch.
Dude! They are really getting their mellow harshed.
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