Can you imagine some fucked up government or wealthy billionaire using this to persuade the natives to flee their homeland and join urban civilization so that they could turn their jungle into precious real estate?
Cargo cults in WW2 were wild. Us soldiers island hopping in the pacific set up military bases, traded and interacted with the natives, then bailed leaving some of their equipment behind. That one is the most famous, where a soldier named "John Frum" (as in "John from America") became a prophet to them that would return with riches. [This is a great video on it.](https://youtu.be/xVD8eLvig_I\)
They viewed the soldiers almost as a race of demigods with infinite resources that would come back to save them one day. They even built landing strips to encourage aircraft to land in hopes they would bring riches. It's crazy.
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u/monnnstella Sep 14 '22
Whoa man... brilliant.
Fucked up...
But brilliant.