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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

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Just started this. The De Rios book was good but it was sad as well, to see how quickly indigenous people's beliefs and practices are usurped by commercial interests.

 

It is the nature of capitalism and commercialism to crassly sell for profit the deeper art of humanity and culture. This is what is symbolized in the story of i Jesus going through the Temple in Jerusalem with a nine-tailed whip, to chase away the profiteers who crassly exploit the inner child in us all, which is fascinated and awestruck by value and wisdom of culture. They have Zapatista tourist gift shops in Chiapas, and keep in mind, its the middle of a civil war there between the government and the EZLN. Does it negate the value of the EZLN? Hardly. It just makes the gift-shops look, well, touristy and all the shallow and pejorative connotations such a word contains..