Posted by Sigismund on March 11, 2008, at 17:29:08
In reply to Re: I don't know how much more I can take!, posted by fayeroe on March 10, 2008, at 20:46:24
>The fighting and mudslinging is causing me to wish I could move to somewhere like Mexico. Hide away in a little village and fish for my supper!
I wish I could avoid lots of the modern world entirely.
I have been reading a book (in part) about a wonderfully reactionary Harvard ethnobotanist (R.E. Schultz) who did not accept the result of the American War of Independance and voted for Queen Elizabeth in the US elections, could not abide the Kennedys and so on. It is possible he was so reactionary that he did not accept Christianity, at least his extrememly empathic relations with the American Indian people, interest in their use of plants (particularly ritual use) does suggest that.
The book is...
"One River" by Wade Davis
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