Footage of the World’s Last Uncontacted Tribe, Deep in the Brazilian Amazon

Makes me think, maybe the pre­oc­cu­pa­tion with aliens is some­thing more than mere pro­jec­tion of our own future. What would Meirelles be to these tribes when they look up at his fly­ing object? Do these tribes imag­ine this future in their dia­logue? Shows how active­ly we in 21st cen­tu­ry con­sti­tute our future.

If we could ask them, how do you think they’d respond to being pub­li­cised like a zoo attrac­tion? They’re not free, they’re igno­rant. It’s a hor­ri­ble catch 22 but how can they have any idea what their choic­es are with­out those choic­es being dev­as­tat­ing­ly lim­it­ed. Would they thank us for intrud­ing on their lives, prob­a­bly not, but con­verse­ly, would they thank us for leav­ing them out of ours, leav­ing them alone, igno­rant and vul­ner­a­ble in a world that has moved on so much, I doubt that too. They should­n’t be our respon­si­bil­i­ty, and I think they’d be hor­ri­fied that we view them in the way we do, as curiosi­ties, but they are our respon­si­bil­i­ty, and there’s no way we can do the right thing here.
They must be a proud, resource­ful, and mighty peo­ple to sur­vive in ways we no longer remem­ber how, and it sad­dens me that we regard them as prim­i­tives in need of pro­tec­tion, and it sad­dens me that this is actu­al­ly the case.

“mis­sion to pro­tect this pop­u­la­tion by pub­li­ciz­ing their exis­tence” — I am not sure of how one thing would help with the oth­er.
I think it is our respon­si­bil­i­ty to try to res­cue them from the stone age and bring them into the mod­ern times, where they might have access to decent med­i­cine and good qual­i­ty of life; not to men­tion to be put away from the dan­gers of the jun­gle.
If a space­ship land­ed on Earth that is what we would like to have, a share of the knowl­edge and the progress of the more advanced civ­i­liza­tion.
Not to be treat­ed as a zoo attrac­tion, as already men­tioned above.

It seems to me that if we apply Nuno’s view at face val­ue we should also con­sid­er pre­serv­ing cul­tur­al prac­tices like
1. Infan­ti­cides (Africa and Brazil­ian tribes, as far as I am aware of)
2. Female gen­i­tal muti­la­tion (Africa and Near East)
3. Legal ampu­ta­tions (all around the world)
Of course all “ways of live” are part of the human cul­tur­al bag­gage and as such they must be well doc­u­ment­ed for the ben­e­fit of future gen­er­a­tions. For exam­ple, as a good les­son of what should not be repeat­ed.
Need­less to say that even with­out direct inter­ven­tion, cul­tures do dis­ap­pear and pop­u­la­tions do get iso­lat­ed — most­ly in result from the lack of sci­en­tif­ic and tech­no­log­i­cal progress. Decay and extinc­tion are present also in biol­o­gy, with the extinc­tion of species, and in the geol­o­gy (not to men­tion in the plan­e­tary realm).
One pic­ture I once saw (not too long ago) in a dai­ly news­pa­per let a strong impres­sion on me. It was a group of peo­ple from the remote coun­try­side of Brazil watch­ing TV for the very first time in their lives, their eyes shin­ing in total amaze­ment.
If dur­ing your entire life you ate worms and saw peo­ple dying around you in mis­er­able con­di­tions at a young age, then you will still find some degree of hap­pi­ness. That is the most won­der­ful char­ac­ter­is­tic of humans beings: adap­ta­tion.
But should we go ahead and intro­duce that first group of peo­ple to the Inter­net? What about that tribe? Should we pre­vent their young peo­ple from dying in con­se­quence of pre­ventable dis­eases?
At the end, I real­ly can’t fig­ure out one good exam­ple of a closed and iso­lat­ed soci­ety in which knowl­edge and free­dom have thrived.

they have banana and papaya… i don’t think they are an “uncon­tactec tribe”.