Gas tribe and thought about Capitalism

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Today I have heard about some young Italian teenagers who has bought a pair of slippers for 200 euro. Yes, two hundreds euro.
A pair of slippers made of plastic, maybe with a logo of a big multinational.

End of preamble.

In august I have visited a tribe in a remote place of Kenya, maybe the most remote of this beautiful country. These women belong to Gas tribe, in north east side of Turkana lake.
Compared to other tribes, they seemed to me a bit suffering, due to extreme drought of last years. Nevertheless, they sometimes smile with a smile I have never seen in western world. They live with nothing, they don't give a price to the things, the give a VALUE to all things they own.

I think again to our western society. We are good consumer, but we don't appreciate what we have, and we are forgetting how happyness is, how living in community is. We are forgetting the meaning of this beautiful word and state of mind: 'content ourselves'.

Liberal unbridled Capitalism is evil, multinationals are poisonous.

I hope the wind of justice will blow up all this shitty system, and we start to think that if we have good friends, a fridge full of food, and drinkable and fresh water from the tap we have already ALL we need to be happy, and there is nobody to be envy.

I'm not a Communist, I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I'm only a man who try to travel the most I can (never enough), I listen to people stories, and I'm trying to think and act with my mind.

Picture taken with Nikon D800.
07.08.2023

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I need to learn to give value to things I own! Thank you for sharing.

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This is exactly what is going on in this world, those who have money are fulfilling their every wish, just like this boy bought shoes with a lot of money, and there are some people in other countries who have enough money to eat. There is no money either.

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Society gives us the "power" to "choose" of self-destruction. Amazing pictures. DId they notice that you were taking pics around?

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True. Yes, they know we were taking pics. We asked the permission to the chief of village, otherwise it is not possible to take pics.

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A pleasure to follow your travels:) First and last are my absolute favourite!! The colours they are wearing are beautiful, maybe a reflection of what you had observed within their life's..?

Might I ask you if you are combining your travels (and photography) with "work" or are you documenting them "just" for yourself?

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Thank you! I will try to write some info and reflection about their lifestyle in next posts. By the way, there are not indivual but community. In other words, community first, individual second. Their life are very simple, water and animals are the most precious things. There are also some rules about marriage (combinate marriage) but some people say 'no, I want to choose my wife or husband, but.... hard life to make this choice. About food, they eat fishes from Turkana lake, good taste fishes. They don't want to be photographed, but the chief of the village has talked with them, so some of them said yes to be photographed, other ones not. European people are like alien there, it is not a touristic places. We have also helped them simply taking there some food (biscuits, flour...) or buying some necklace and also some objects they make. Photography is not my job, only passion and curiosity to observe the world. Nevertheless, I wish to sell some prints and I do some exhibition, to share my passion with others and maybe to have more money to spend in travels.

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It seems like a very inspiring journey you are on, or had there! ...to get such an insight into different ways of living is great, I find, for everything and everyone, and not the least for any creative expression:)
I think it would be a great idea to print your photos and share your views of the world like that!!

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Thank you!
This is the first print, I have found a good place where to print pic on fine art sheet

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This is something that resonates with me on a deep level. Thank you so much for posting this, even if only making me realise I am not the only one with these thoughts. We are poisoned to always want more even though we have the world. And then we are humbled by these people who have, compared to us, nothing but who are probably happier than we are.

Your photographs are amazing and I would love to have visited them as well, to photograph yes, but also just to sit and experience life as they do for a while.

Thank you so much for sharing! Keep well. And let us hope that people will appreciate the things we have taken for granted.

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Thank you very much. Thank you also to @mauro-debettio who permits me to discover all these reality.

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You are so lucky to have such friends and such experiences! Enjoy them, as I am sure they are life changing discoveries and travels. Keep well.

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Amigo te felicito has dicho una gran verdad en tu contenido, admirable realidad..

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