"Wait up. I'm taking a Selfie."
Posted on 06/05/2024 9:36:35 AM PDT by billorites
A reclusive tribe in the Amazon finally got hooked up to the internet, thanks to Elon Musk — only to be torn apart by social media and pornography addiction, elders complain.
Brazil’s 2,000-member Marubo tribe has been left bitterly divided by the arrival of the Tesla founder’s Starlink service nine months ago, which connected the remote rainforest community along the Ituí River to the web for the first time.
“When it arrived, everyone was happy,” Tsainama Marubo, 73, told The New York Times.
“But now, things have gotten worse. Young people have gotten lazy because of the internet, they’re learning the ways of the white people.”
The Marubo are a chaste tribe, who even frown upon kissing in public — but Alfredo Marubo (all Marubo use the same last name) said he is anxious that the arrival of the service, which delivers super-fast internet to far-flung corners of the planet and has been billed as a game-changer by Musk, could upend standards of decorum.
Alfredo said many young Marubo men have been sharing porn videos in group chats and he has already observed more “aggressive sexual behavior” in some of them.
“We’re worried young people are going to want to try it,” he said of the kinky sex acts they’ve suddenly been exposed to on screen.
“Everyone is so connected that sometimes they don’t even talk to their own family.”
Starlink works by connecting antennas to 6,000 low-orbiting satellites.
The necessary antennas were donated to the tribe by American entrepreneur Allyson Reneau.
Initially, the internet was heralded as a positive for the remote tribe who were able to quickly contact authorities for help with emergencies, including potentially deadly snake bites.
“It’s already saved lives,” Enoque Marubo, 40, stated.
It has also opened up a world of possibilities for young
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Wait until they find out who created and runs the porn industry.
Wicked.
"Wait up. I'm taking a Selfie."
I wouldn’t doubt that one bit- so many people desperate not just for $$ but for attention too- Folks that do that will be held accountable- it’s almost like Munchausen where a parent does that to a child just for the attention- Gypsy Rose Lee was severely abused by her feckless mother- her story has been on TV- she ended up gettign her boyfriend to kill the mother- The mother was a true monster-
Wait until they find out who created and runs the porn industry. |
Do half-naked tribal people really have to worry about porn?
If you understand that the purpose of porn is to twist, disfigure and desecrate the sacred act of love that God created for us with the intention of hurting us and drawing us away from God, then yes.....they have to worry about it.
The devil uses his people on earth to create it and spread it as far and wide as possible to destroy lives.
The founders and proprietors of the porn industry are highly capable agents of his.
I had to laugh, though. I go to a Christian Men's group once a month, and the fellow who runs it spent something like 15 years down in this area as a missionary, with very interesting stories.
I have to see what he thinks of this...
True. It degrades everyone involved, from performers and producers to the viewers.
Reminds me of the Coke bottle in “The Gods Must Be Crazy”.
Its gotta be a miracle that these peoples made it as far as they did in this modern world. It shall be a good control in the experiment on ‘What Killed the Humans”.
You cant tell me that grand-pa didnt know what to do about a snake bite.
Does Amazon make deliveries there?
Wow. What would have happened if they got an empty Coke bottle?
Crocodile and piranha.
And that is why they have become lazy, as the article stated. Why go out hunting and farming, when you can just order groceries from Amazon and they arrive right at the door?
having bandwidth is one thing.
do they have the electricity to run computers?
or is it just smart phones?
i’ll be amazed if that equipment isn’t stolen soon.
+1!
Al Gore did that
That was a very good and insightful comment.
Obvious reminder of the Crocodile Dundee scene:
Neville: Oh, no, you can’t take my photograph.
Sue: I’m sorry – you believe it will take your spirit away?
Neville: No, you’ve got lens cap on.
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