----- Original Message ----- From: "Peeter Vissak" : If there is a slightest sign of distrust they won't sing or dance to : you at all or if they do sing or tell stories, that will be absolute : bullshit. They invent fake stories and fake fairytales not to open up : their lives. Later they may laugh how silly people from big cities : buy everything they hear and also try to fish on salmon in the high pike time. Many an anthroplogolist has been duped across time by such activities, but then - who likes to be treated as a curio, an oddity to be stared at or recorded? : : They have told, that opening yourself up means tearing off protective : masking and then everyone can come and find your soul as a bare stone : at the river - a suitable place to wash their feet. precisely! : Although it is not forbidden by sacred texts, there have been : extrasensitives who warn us about giving away your pictures or images : of your home or family; also about hanging up pictures with important : meaning to your living-room or bedroom. Even if you have good : intentions or do these people who get your picture, the world is full : of rude vibes that may harm you - so they say. And much like writing, it locks thoughts in stone to be examined, misinterpreted or misrepresented at a later date by anyone with an agenda : Again - please don't get me wrong, but such suspicions belong to some : cultures or to some ways of thinking and every next day proves that : the world does not care. Sometimes it's nice to be forgotten :-) There is a trend here in Oz for folks to go overseas and take pictures of people in more 'primitive places, come back and hold an exhibition. Personally I find this a little distasteful. Viewers milling past looking at pictures of old, toothless people or limbless children in the most voyeuristic sense like they are bugs under a microscope. No one would patronise an exhibition of obese westerners wandering shopping malls (or would they?) If there was a purpose, say to draw attention to the plight of tsunami victims or what have you then I'd have less of a problem, but even so - I personally would loathe to be recorded in a moment of misery, to be stared at by people I don't know - would I expect any less of another human soul? am I being too sensitive? k
