Pp. Francis' Amazonian Fairy Tales

Pp. Francis and some of the German clerisy, along with a whole lot of idiots, have presented "Amazonians" as St. Francis-like people of simplicity, filled with sweetness and light, spreading joy and Inspirational Wall-Posters midst themselves, and generally exemplars of "the village" in charity and communal child-raising, etc., etc., etc..

Then again, maybe that's not.......true.

Althouse, who reads everything, found this little item.

“Yanomami life was one of ‘incessant warfare,’ he wrote. His data, collected over decades, he said, showed that 44 percent of Yanomami men over 25 had participated in killing someone, that 25 percent of Yanomami men were killed by other Yanomami men, and that men who killed were more highly esteemed and had more wives and children than men who did not. Dr. Chagnon dismissed as ‘Marxist’ the widespread anthropological belief that warfare in tribal life was usually provoked by disputes over access to scarce resources. ‘The whole purpose and design of the social structure of tribesmen seems to have revolved around effectively controlling sexual access by males to nubile, reproductive- age females,’ he wrote in his 2014 memoir, ‘Noble Savages.’...

Are you surprised to learn that Pp. Francis & Co's analysis is "Marxist"??

Perhaps the Germans are really the Grimm Brothers, because the "Amazonians" they see are--in fact--fairy tales.