The real "Cargo Cult" aspect to all of this is the fact that left-wing Americans believe that they can keep performing their own rituals - going to the grocery store, paying the electric bill, using the internet - even after they've destroyed all of the mechanisms by which civilization is built.
Funny how in the same breath, the article you quoted both acknowledged the reckless vehicular killing of that child by a Haitian, while claiming that somehow it is these same people who brought the decaying town back to life (while their livelihoods are almost entirely subsidized through taxpayer money).
The cargo cult comparison could be contributed to all ignorant Americans who provide nothing to society and hold out their arms for endless government handouts. They have no idea how the machine works or the actual work that gets put into basic infrastructure it’s like magic created by the tax dollars of others.
Visited Papua-New Guinea in 1983. Went to the outskirts of Port Moresby to take a look. How do you know where the outskirts are? The road ends at dense jungle and there are people with fuzzy hair, loin clothes or grass skirts, have bones in their noses and carry a spear or bow & arrows. I told the taxi driver to take me back a half mile. That's where I did my sightseeing. PNG is close enough to the Solomon Islands that to this day when I hear lefty loonies labeled "cargo cultists" it is the PNG native I see in my mind's eye. But for all that, those folks seemed friendly enough. Lots of smiles and their small kids were cute as buttons as most small kids are.
The real "Cargo Cult" aspect to all of this is the fact that left-wing Americans believe that they can keep performing their own rituals - going to the grocery store, paying the electric bill, using the internet - even after they've destroyed all of the mechanisms by which civilization is built.
Funny how in the same breath, the article you quoted both acknowledged the reckless vehicular killing of that child by a Haitian, while claiming that somehow it is these same people who brought the decaying town back to life (while their livelihoods are almost entirely subsidized through taxpayer money).
Richard Feynman coined the term, “Cargo Cult Science” in his 1974 Caltech commencement address:
https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm
Been saying the same! Shared the same link.
You nailed it exactly.
While I focussed on our magical material obsession, and culture.
You tied in why , the immigration dream of America.
Yes it is a cargo cults.
The thing that others don't realize;
Cargo ain't free, it costs blood sweat and tears.
That's why the world they flee is a mess.
That's why America is a mess.
We forgot that for everything there is a cost. Sooner or later that bill has to be paid!
The cargo cult comparison could be contributed to all ignorant Americans who provide nothing to society and hold out their arms for endless government handouts. They have no idea how the machine works or the actual work that gets put into basic infrastructure it’s like magic created by the tax dollars of others.
Great piece!
Thank you.
Visited Papua-New Guinea in 1983. Went to the outskirts of Port Moresby to take a look. How do you know where the outskirts are? The road ends at dense jungle and there are people with fuzzy hair, loin clothes or grass skirts, have bones in their noses and carry a spear or bow & arrows. I told the taxi driver to take me back a half mile. That's where I did my sightseeing. PNG is close enough to the Solomon Islands that to this day when I hear lefty loonies labeled "cargo cultists" it is the PNG native I see in my mind's eye. But for all that, those folks seemed friendly enough. Lots of smiles and their small kids were cute as buttons as most small kids are.
2024 seems to be the year where the cargo cult meets the preference cascade head on.
https://substack.com/@stevenberger/note/c-79572952?r=1nm0v2
Well met!
"...endless wave upon wave of unassimilated groups that continue to arrive in the country..."
This describe jewish immigration as well, not to mention Irish.