A classic audio collage by Virtual Renderings, condensed a bit by KD. It explores the root of today's social, economic, and environmental crises: Western civilization's out-of-touch-ness with the natural world. American Indians provide better examples of how to live in the world. Included: the greatest Navajo insult, why hunter-gatherers lived longer and better than farmers, and other interesting ideas.
The piece blends commentary by indigenous people and Euro-Americans, plus a good deal of music.
Unedited versions of Virtual Renderings 114 audio collages are archived at radio4all.net. This URL will list them all: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/contributor/2102
New World Notes is produced under the auspices (Latin for "bad influence") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.
This installment is available--in MP3 and other formats--also on The Internet Archive (www.archive.org). The page with the download links is here: https://archive.org/download/nwn-657-true-to-earth-1-192k
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