Contaminating the Garden

CNN.com - Tribe has%A0best excuse for poor math skills - Aug 19%2C 2004

Sometimes I wonder what some folks are doing, muddling in affairs they have no business fiddling with. Maybe the counting thing is better left to the industrialized world.

I tend to think that this information might be interesting, but what happens when the Pirhana learn more math? Will it affect their culture? Will it turn them into greedy buggers like us?

Maybe that was part of what they rejected when they remained in their State of Grace with the Earth. Their ancestors may have been cognizant of what numbers and math are when they decided that they wanted no part it.

Then, teaching them math would be contaminating the culture with a terminal conceptual disease. I just hope it doesn't stick.

Otherwise, aren't the findings thought-provoking?