For several years, I worked in Ethiopia and Djibouti. There are still tribes of hunters and nomadic warriors living there. Contact with different cultures, such as Western culture, causes all their values, their way of understanding the world, the stories they tell their children, and their mythologies to collapse. After contact, these stories look odd. The children stop recognizing themselves in their parents, in their elders; they no longer want to go on. Many fall into drugs or alcohol. In the capital of Djibouti, a large part of the population lives under the influence of drugs.
Oofff and this is with me omitting the most grim part of the paragraph.
This alas seems endemic in first nations Australian’s as well? not sure if it’s the same reasons though.
Very unexpected take(s). Just ordered his 2 previous books, pre-ordered the 3rd one.
