That was an absolutely horrific tale. It was also very poorly written. I still don't have an exact sense of the timeline, but it appears that they had more than this kid, David. The father sounds like a real piece of work. I feel bad for the kids (now adults) who are nothing more that the leftover products of an experiment gone wrong.

When this kid finally loses it, at least he'll only be shooting at Yanomani or Venezuelans.

So there's that.

Not a horrific tale. Just another example of people making reproductive decisions without looking long term.

Probably several million of those a year.

The other two children don't have the angst about their beginnings that the writer does. Wonder why?

"Her age is unknown, because the Yanomami count only up to 2; anything more than that is called 'many.' They have no electricity, no plumbing, no paved roads, no written language, no markets or currency, no medicine."

An aside, but does anyone see a cause and effect here? There ought to be a lesson for people who support our own civilization-destroyers.

What an idiot. First, he shouldn't have brought her to the States. Second, assuming he did, there's a lot he could have done to make life easier... perhaps living in the country, giving birth in a natural birthing center, living on a nudist commune, whatever. It's not like there aren't options once you're in the States.

But maybe he couldnt leave her because she would get gang raped again.

To steal an old joke from an African-American stand up comic named Steve White:

"Kenneth Good! What's his middle name? Ain't?"

What are you talking about Isab, this a horrific tale, plenty of people choose poorly their reproductive partners but Jesus look at what this guy did:

1. Is given a 9 year old bride but doesn't fuck her till 13
2. Woman is gang raped by 20-30 men and he just shrugs it off as an opsie.
3. Mother abandons kids and anytime his son asks about it he doesn't answer
4. Son is distraught and the dad thinks its because he is 5'4" aka a short little brown boy.
5. Son finally finds out what happened to mom when he sees her in the Museum on school trip

As to why only the eldest is having a crisis. Isn't the answer obvious? He's the only one that remembers her, the others were just babies/toddlers.

So Good was a student at the time? Wonder what kind of grade he got in "Ethics of Anthropology"...

@ppen

The history of human kind is people surviving awful situations, and awful beginnings and moving on with their own individual lives.

Wallowing in his angst about shit does nothing for this guy, and does nothing for anyone else.

as Crid says, it isn't "helpful".

There are no new lessons to be learned from this.

The father rightly caught a lot of grief for bringing her out of the jungle to begin with. He was an anthropologist for Christ sakes, and he still let his dick do his thinking for him.

Love doesn't conquer everything. We have known that for about ten thousand years,

A lot of kids lose both parents, in a traumatic fashion.(not just one)

I'm reminded of the Japanese elementary school up on the hill above a town near Sendai. While they watched, a one hundred foot wall of water made most of them orphans in about one minute.)

If you are going to use your mother going back to where she came from, and leaving you safe,housed, and well fed in another country, as an excuse to become an emotional basket case, no amount of naval gazing over past events is going to help you with that.

You're missing the point.

Isab might be missing the point but she made a better one.

And from what I gathered from the article he was the youngest, not the oldest, and therefore would have had less memories of her.

His emotional problems didnt stem for his mother going home, but from his fathers callous disregard for anything or anyone other than himself

You're missing the point.

Posted by: Ppen at May 29, 2014 9:42 AM

If I am missing the point, it may be because there isn't one.

This story was written for voyeurs to sensationalize the whole exotic

'I was ashamed of my mother because she had a bone through her nose' but now I have seen the light, and joined the pure genuine, culturally authentic civilization that she came from'

with the obligatory secondary theme , all men are monsters, and look how badly my mother was treated".

It is a liberal wet dream, and you are all "tut tutting" in a unified chorus.
I frankly don't see anything but tabloid journalism here.

You are wrong lujlp.

David was the son conceived in Venezuela.

"His sister Vanessa was born just over a year afterwards on a banana leaf in the Amazon, while the family were on a trip back to Hasupuweteri. A baby brother, Daniel, came along three years later"

"It is a liberal wet dream, and you are all "tut tutting" in a unified chorus. "

Why are you turning this into a "liberals wet dream"? I didn't get the impression from him at all. I'm tired of accusations that everything is liberal propaganda.

If getting his dick sucked on by mosquitos and shitting uncontrollably helps him come to terms with his mothers abandonment and fathers narcism then I'm not sure how this is nothing more than a story of a man who wants to come to terms with his roots.

I'm an atheist and I once traveled to a shitty third world country to come to terms with my family's religious roots too.

I've been to Venezuela & Peru and yes some people choose to live in the jungle for various reasons. They find it to be a spiritual experience and I really respect the ones that enjoy it.

And here is the point: We all know that bad, horrific things happen to people. Telling them that bad horrific things have always happened will no more help them get over it than them sitting in their houses whining about it.

I like to hear these stories and what kind of journey people take to come to terms with who they are.

"all men are monsters, and look how badly my mother was treated"

BTW he speaks about how badly his mother was treated by the tribe......

And finally yes you are right he is *quite* the liberal:

"He wants his organisation, called The Good Project, to help indigenous people find their way in the market economy, a process he sees as inevitable. He says that those who live in more Westernised villages near missions can struggle with their identity, just like he did"

He says that those who live in more Westernised villages near missions can struggle with their identity, just like he did

Yeah, when you dont have to spend every waking moment fighting to stay alive its easy enough for you to use leisure time to question things

"Her age is unknown, because the Yanomami count only up to 2; anything more than that is called 'many.'"

This is just bad science. Like many groups the Yanomami cannot count to two. They have basic concepts like few, many, alot. Or larger/smaller more/less. If you start off with one two is many and anything more is alot. When you go the other direction you get a different answer.

I like to hear these stories and what kind of journey people take to come to terms with who they are.

Posted by: Ppen at May 29, 2014 11:00 AM

So in other words, there was no point.

This is just a New York Post version of 'go fund me'. Because of. .......feelings, and identity struggles, and coming to terms with...who ..you.. are.

Which is all new age pop psych bullshit.

So this guy voluntarily chooses to live in a culture, where any woman who is unprotected by her husband or father will be gang raped by all the other men in the tribe.

Got it. The noble savage, and all that.

And when I said, 'liberal wet dream' I was referring to the article itself, not the people mentioned in it.

Sounds like an excellent opportunity for the visiting observer to invoke the Prime Directive.

Anyway, "like it's a Japanese venereal disease" - man, those Axis diseases are the WORST. Especially the German sausage diseases.

Those really are the wurst.

Anyway, "like it's a Japanese venereal disease" - man, those Axis diseases are the WORST. Especially the German sausage diseases.

Those really are the wurst.

Posted by: Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at May 29, 2014 1:57 PM

I've had one of those. Isn't the only effective treatment three liters of beer?

"I've had one of those. Isn't the only effective treatment three liters of beer? "

It doesn't actually make it better, but it makes you not care.