No mystery,
It's monkey see, monkey no can do. These cults are not restricted to the south
sea islands. Most of them have monkey "see'd'" enough to migrate to the welfare
offices where they are given several new names, issued food stamps and voter
ID's.
You will hear much more about them than you ever wanted right after Tuesday.
Richard
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 5:44 AM, Remi Cornwall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In the South Seas there is a cargo cult of people. During the war they saw
airplanes land with lots of good materials, and they want the same thing to
happen now. So they've arranged to make things like runways, to put fires along
the sides of the runways, to make a wooden hut for a man to sit in, with two
wooden pieces on his head like headphones and bars of bamboo sticking out like
antennas--he's the controller--and they wait for the airplanes to land. They're
doing everything right. The form is perfect. It looks exactly the way it looked
before. But it doesn't work. No airplanes land. So I call these things cargo
cult science, because they follow all the apparent precepts and forms of
scientific investigation, but they're missing something essential, because the
planes don't land.
I don't know, I have heard so much about this cargo cult people, maybe the
news of them has drawn in enough scientists, documentary makers and sightseers
that their goal has manifested over the years!
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