Wade Davis: Well, there are lots of wonderful things about our culture and I wouldn‘t trade it for anything, but nor would the Panoan want to trade their culture for my culture – and why should they have to? The issue is not the traditional versus a modern. It‘s a right of free people to choose the components of their own lives. It‘s not about freezing people in the past or us returning to a pre-industrial past; it‘s about finding a way that all peoples can benefit from the best of modernity without that engagement demanding the death of themselves as an ethnicity, because culture‘s not trivial. (via Lars Schall)