The God's Must Be Crazy......

I have a good view of the world. I'm not isolated from it nor do I feel like I'm unable to communicate with people in other countries. I am in the age of the internet so blogs like this one provide me the opportunity to interact with people ALL OVER THE WORLD!! I like having my cell phone to have instant connections with people, or my Yahoo IM, and I especially love showcasing my life on myspace and facebook. But what about life without those lovely things we sometimes take for granted? What must life be like for people without those things?

When watching the film The God's Must Be Crazy, I was amazed that groups of people live such isolated lives away from what we consider the comforts of the world. It was amazing to see how us littering caused the biggest disruption in their lives. A simple glass bottle created issues never seen in their simple yet wonderful community. The bottle caused jealously, envy, and anger amongst the Bushmen. Suddenly this new introduction from the civilized world caused them to forget about things they'd been using for centuries in favor of this new shiny, glass bottle.

In life this happens to us in the civilized world. We get new gadgets and accessories and forget about old methods. It used to be messages were delivered by foot. A person would walk miles and miles to tell the message, but now we use e-mail and cell phones. This movie showed me the beauty of African countryside but also the ugly parts of government there. We see rebels killing government officials, and those same rebels taking over a group of school children. This is the negative side of Africa that many in Western society paints as true, accurate and always occurring. This probably happen few and far in between but when it does it's always sad and devastating for some.

I thought the film The God's Must Be Crazy was a funny movie. I laughed and was astonished at the primitive lifestyle of the Bushmen. I feel we in the modern world can learn from simplistic living. This new technology and such makes life so complicated. That complication causes our relationships with one another to suffer. The Bushman were primitive but their relationships were so much better and they formed strong family units.