Daniel Everett om bevisen för att Pirahafolket i Amazonas är lyckliga
"And what's the evidence for their happiness? On the one hand every visitor that I take down to the Pirahã comments that they've never seen people smile and laugh so much. That's one superficial evidence of happiness. But you also don't find Pirahã sitting around depressed and crying. You don't find chronic fatigue syndrome. You don't find suicide. The concept of suicide is foreign to them. I've never seen evidence for any of the mental disorders that we associate with depression, sadness and lack of happiness among the Pirahã. They just work, they come home, and they talk. They're happy. They sing at night. And they get up and do it again. It's just an amazing degree of satisfaction without the need for consciousness-altering drugs or states"."
(Daniel Everett i denna intervju)
(Pirahafolket är en urfolksstam i Amazonas regnskog på ca 800 människor)
Agape...Foto av Titti Spaltro.
