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EVER once in a while some photographer or hiker or anthropologist or somebody finds a new “Stone Age tribe” living in Papua/New Guinea or Borneo or the Congo or the Amazon River Basin, and a big article comes out in Time magazine and somebody writes a book about how “gentle” and “unspoiled” they are because all they do all day is run around nekkid in a cave.

And then a couple years later some photographer will go back there, and they’ll all be wearin Metallica sweatshirts and sellin bootleg videos to tourists.

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EVER once in a while some photographer or hiker or anthropologist or somebody finds a new “Stone Age tribe” living in Papua/New Guinea or Borneo or the Congo or the Amazon River Basin, and a big article comes out in Time magazine and somebody writes a book about how “gentle” and “unspoiled” they are because all they do all day is run around nekkid in a cave.

And then a couple years later some photographer will go back there, and they’ll all be wearin Metallica sweatshirts and sellin bootleg videos to tourists.