by Irrira Rikki

Created on: October 08, 2008   Last Updated: October 31, 2008

WITHOUT THEIR MISTAKES

What is 'superior' ? Lets stretch our hands around this big world and measure who is not considered 'superior', then challenge those who consider themselves to be. Lets start with lands like Africa, from desert sands to pasture lands. Then go right across and up through Afghanistan to the Himalaya. So put your walking boots on, because fuel is either too expensive, or running out fast, and be prepared to learn from the less 'superior'.

Lets visit the local village children who could teach the supposed to be the more superior 'educated' adult or child... how to milk a cow, a goat, a camel, or even a horse. To be able to know then, how to utilize this milk, in which-ever way the village custom is, to use it. For curds, cheeses, drinks, and cooking. Could the pupil with more 'superior teaching' under their belts, do any of this without first having to practice and learn how ?

Could the 'superior' teach them how to grind the corn, the grain, into flour, then change it into any cooked and baked meal? How would these 'superior teachers' of the world not get their hands dirty, by collecting any dung for fuel where there is no wood to burn? Or teach them how to line their huts and floors with wet dung, and take a pride in how it shines? Or how to kill a 'precious' lamb or cow or goat, instead of not caring how, by the millions, these are slaughtered without thought, outside of money for food?

What about calling in on South America? When it comes to knowing when and how to cut the wool of the llama, (Lama) then how to treat, dye, weave, and make anything from a shawl, blanket, and clothing from it? Surely our 'superior educated' would have to learn these skills! How will they live and work and walk though all these conditions without chewing on the coca leaf to keep them going? (Instead of their sophisticated cigarettes and whiskeys.)

What about Egypt, who have used their ancient skills for today's 'superior tourists', offering, what is the papyrus water grass? That's easy from a book, (for the 'superior' to learn,) but to know beyond the book how to harvest, treat, prepare, and actually make this special parchment? Then only to write, or paint on it! Or decipher their hieroglyphics? What can such new civilizations, teach the old, if the new still haven't leaned by their own mistakes?

Try Japan, in it's flowing calligraphic brush and ink writing, and what it all means. Or... what can these 'sophisticated teachers' teach here, more about the effects

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