For anyone who hasn't seen it, the documentary he talks about is mesmerizing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS7a-OJ7IVw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS7a-OJ

For anyone who hasn't seen it, the documentary he talks about is mesmerizing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS7a-OJ7IVw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS7a-OJ7IVw Two standout scenes for me. First, gazing out from the London Eye over a skyline filled with incredible feats of engineering, the chief is bemused - because our money houses are so much bigger than our spirit houses. Second, entering the main spirit house itself (St. Paul's cathedral) - after establishing that their women won't be struck dead for entering such a holy place - the tribespeople encounter, seemingly for the first time, the glories of neoclassical Western sculpture, art, architecture. They caress the faces carved from marble and stone, dance with pure delight between the soaring Corinthian columns. They explain how such impossibly beautiful things could only have been created by God, and have obviously been part of the world from the very beginning. Ever since watching this series, I've tried to look at my city with the same combination of cynicism and amazement. There's also a bittersweet segment where the chief of the tribe is dumbfounded that he's not allowed to drop in on the "big chief" - Queen Elizabeth II.