The missionaries are their own special brand of obscene. More effort should be put into things like dropping sterilized radios or rugged tablets, with the inten

The missionaries are their own special brand of obscene. More effort should be put into things like dropping sterilized radios or rugged tablets, with the intent of beginning a conversation with them, to the extent of "we will leave you alone if you decide that's what you want, but before that, here's what's happening in the rest of the world" and then build up to the point where they're treated as equally valuable human beings, and not pseudo- mystically revered academic projects. Presumably there's a way of providing medical treatment and vaccinations such that they could make contact with the outside world. Just having access to information about sanitation practice, germ theory of disease, radio communication, and so on would mean enormous enrichment. If they choose to remain isolated having communications with the rest of the world over the internet would give them economic means of protecting their lands by altering authorities and the world about trespasses. We collectively isolate them because their cultures are presumed to be of such importance that enforcing primitive and often brutally savage conditions is somehow acceptable in return. Most African preserves offer better medical care to wild animals than these actual humans have - the imposed isolation seems barbaric, too me.