Just Your Average 68-Year-Old College Freshman.
“Cargo Cults” were scattered across the islands of Melanesia during the middle of the last century. Chapter 14.
Cult members were traumatized by the sudden appearance of wondrous goods being unloaded on their docks and airfields — tools, vehicles, appliances, unimaginable foodstuffs. They were puzzled that those goods weren’t meant for them, that someone else owned them—whatever “own” means.
They felt they had been cheated. So they beseeched their gods and the divine armies that invaded during WWII to come back and bring them their due share.
More recently, our own communities are dotted with islands where UPS and FedEx seldom call and offload. Again, the gods aren’t listening.
