Jun

22

In The Lost World of the Kalahari, Laurens van der Post writes about living among the Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert and describes how shocked they were that he couldn’t hear the stars.

At first they thought he must be joking or lying. When they realized he really couldn’t hear the stars, they concluded he must be very ill and expressed great sorrow. For the Bushmen knew anyone who can’t hear nature must have the gravest sickness of all.

Intuition? Navigational skills? whatever is meant in the above. Have friends who are using GPS to go their local grocery shop which is 2km away, as if they don't know the way anymore.

Zubin Al Genubi writes:

The National Park service has a category of accidents called death by GPS. People walk off cliffs looking at iphone. A tourist in Hawaii drove into the harbor on a boat ramp until her car sank trying to get to a boat located on the map.

Big Al offers:

With a nice explanation of how GPS works:

Something is jamming GPS over Europe. Here's what we found - Veritasium

Nils Poertner responds:

From the point of those Kalahari Bushman we (modern people) are probably all quite ill anyway. GPS could be seen as metaphor who is guiding us in life anyway (we are kept like electronic doggies who are meant to chase electric rabbits but never meant to get them).

Henry Gifford suggests:

I highly recommend the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy, about some Kalahari Bushmen’s perception of the “civilized” world.


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