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If you observed the political debate in the United States this year, there were coconut radios everywhere. “My fellow Americans, my opponent is against hangars made from palm leaves!”
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The arrival of material abundance was incredibly significant to these people, but in the end, they never quite understood what caused it, why it disappeared, or how to get it back.
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Nail some crosses up and see if we get the magic metal birds full of cargo back!īut alas, the toys were never to return. The medicine men of the tribes also tried to use Christian crosses as magical totems those must have had something to do with the whole “manufactured goods” thing, right? Those guys were always wearing those cross things must have had something to do with it. That’s what those guys did to get cargo, right? Then they tried building their own planes out of local materials. They went as far as constructing “radios” out of palm bark and coconuts to spur the return of airplanes. The locals formed religious cults which began praticing rituals to prompt the return of the magical goods. After all, the Gods don’t give you great stuff and take it away without some kind of personal failing. To attempt to get their blessed “cargo” back, they tried to make things right with their deities, whom they had obviously ticked off.

Man, did the islanders miss all that cool technology and food and clothing! They did not understand why the Gods blessed their people with such a magical experience, only to yank it away so quickly. When the war concluded the strange aliens left, taking their “cargo” with them. These peoples in New Guinea and Micronesia marveled at the otherworldly power of airplanes, radios, clothing and weaponry for the first time. The 2012 election taught me was that many Americans belong to a cargo cult.ĭuring World War II in the Southwest Pacific, the Americans and Japanese made first contact with native peoples who had had no contact whatsoever with the industrialized world.
