If this don’t bring a tear to your eye you are just as pathetic, in less than 200 years or so we have littered and trash this country to the point Of no return it’s embarrassing. Next time your detecting and dig , cans, pull tabs, and the rest of the massive mess, rivers, lands, oceans a dumping ground, now that a crime. Next time your digging and find garbage I hope it brings a tear to your eye like mine
I suppose I must be pathetic since the commercial cited doesn't bring a tear to my eye. Perhaps it is simply a matter of my inability to really respect a narrative that has been built upon false premises.
An actor (not actually an Indian) paid to portray an Indian who sheds a tear over the trash strewn areas he is riding through, but doesn't care enough to actually take action himself. As if that faked tear streaming down his face is really doing anything.
Did the camera crew arrive on location via horseback, or did they reach their destination by way of petroleum products and subsequent derivatives? Did the crew clean up the trash strewn area afterwards, and are they still using the same old tools used to create the celluloid in question? Or did they discard those tools of yesteryear and equip themselves with more modern tools?
Does the narrative spun move the commercial's participants (and/or subscribers) to forgo all manmade items that were derived from petroleum products? Have they disavowed modern medical advancements, transportation, shelter, packaging, food safety, and communications?
Did those participants take into consideration the vast amount of waste associated with the very medium they chose to use as the means of communicating the story line they concocted?
I'm not belittling the idea of not tossing trash all over the place, but I'm not about to shed a tear over some fictitious clip selling a false narrative and I'm not real keen on the idea that all who don't swallow the farce are somehow 'pathetic.'
Human history goes back much further than a mere 200 years - that includes the USA. I've been fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to participate in an archeological dig (decades ago) that consisted of - digging through the trash left behind in a Pawnee encampment. Their trash proved to be of great help in determining how the Pawnee lived, the tools used, the storage containers used, etc.. All of it (their trash) was either discarded or lost (almost always the former).
Our own hobby (metal detecting) is really nothing more than us using tools (largely made out of petroleum products) to locate other people's trash. Some of that trash has value to us - things such as coins, jewelry, relics, etc.. Much of that trash does not have a value (to us) but it did have value at one time - someone either purchased the item or made it themselves. Truth be told, even that "valueless trash" has some value: it can be used to help us determine where the most likely prospects of finding wanted items will be.
In a way trash has helped me get (and keep) permission properties; by taking all the trash I find/dig and disposing of it properly, the owner is far more likely to grant me permission to hunt their property. Sure it's a bit of a hassle at times, but in doing so I gain permissions and the knowledge that I did a lot more than shed a fake tear in some silly commercial.
