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Wild at heart
(Jonathan Glancey, The Guardian, June 29, 2002)
"The long-term effect of US culture as it spreads to every nook and cranny in every desert and every mountain valley will be the end of mankind. Our extraordinary greed for material possessions, the ways we go about nurturing that greed, the lack of balance in our lives, and our cultural arrogance will kill us off within a century unless we learn to stop and think. It may be too late." The car, [Wilfred Thesiger] believes, has done more than almost anything else to destroy traditional cultures. Where the peoples he photographed looked lean and beautiful in their nakedness or stunning local costumes, today they too are part of a global tribe that wears baseball caps, chews gum, gawps at TV and yaks into mobile phones.

posted by LoZo 6:53 PM