The Realities of the Lost Tribe

I confess I did not know about the lost tribe of natives recently discovered on the Peru-Brazil border until I read about it in Mike Austin's excellent blog, The Return of Scipio. Mike, knowing quite a lot about the region and what it means to live there, had this to say about conditions for the tribe.

The members of that tribe live in a violent state of nature scarcely above that of animals. They represent an almost complete devolution, an absolute regress, from the beginnings of civilization as presented to us by the Sumerians 6000 years ago. Their degraded existence is one no man would choose, not even the most addled and deluded Greenpeace type. They live out their abbreviated lives among the bat, the serpent, the scorpion, the puma, the crocodile, the spider, the hornet and the mosquito. Their bodies are home to a host of worms and diseases.

He's got a lot more to say. Read the whole thing.