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 Abducted by Aliens
Or How I Learned to Cope With High Strangeness, Government Harassment, and My Mother (a True Story)by Chuck Weiss
Available as a FREE e-Book at AbductionSite.com.368 Pages, Color Photos & Fully Indexed
Contact Chuck at AlienAbductionTheBlog@mail.com.
157: When Different Cultures Meet
It is thought that whenever a lower culture meets a higher culture, the lower culture will begin todisintegrate as it gives up its old values and way of doing things for the values of the higher culture andits new technologies. For many this is a bad thing, especially when it comes to alien contact.In the early 1950’s, the CIA went to the Brookings Institute and asked them to consider the ramificationsif humans were to come in contact with extraterrestrials. A prestigious panel that included famedanthropologistMargret Meadwas formed to consider the question. Their final report forecasted culturaldisaster following any exchanges with a more advanced civilization, and sited the examples of Montezuma of the Aztecs and the American Indian to prove their point.It has long been held that when Cortez and his men landed in the new world, Montezuma thought him to be their ancient god, Quetzalcoatl, long prophesized to return and welcomed him with open arms. It wasa fatal mistake, which resulted in his murder and the ultimate destruction of the Aztec civilization. Andof course we all know how well the natives fared after Columbus “discovered” America.Should lesser cultures be preserved intact like some museum piece, existing in isolation along side older and more advanced cultures? Or, do cultures naturally evolve by meeting other cultures and exchangingideas? That appears to have been the way they developed here on Earth. As ancient civilizationsexpanded their original borders, they would bump into other established civilizations and either go towar, or trade their goods along with their cultural values and ideas.I videotaped adocumentaryon TV back in the ‘80s called “First Contact.” It was about three brothersfrom Australia, who hiked deep into the interior of New Guinea in the early 1930s looking for gold. Thedocumentary used film footage and photographs of the expedition shot by the brothers themselves.They took ninety “civilized” natives with them as carriers, and after they scaled what had thought beforeto be an impenetrable mountain range, they discovered several valleys nestled in between the mountains.These valleys were home to several million people who had never seen anyone beyond the mountains.The individual tribes they met kept within their boundaries, except when they went to war with aneighbor, and none knew of the world beyond their protected valleys. The brothers weren’t scientists, sothey weren’t concerned about cultural contamination. They even took a young boy from one of the
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