[MD] Aymara - already posted perhaps?

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Hi Michael,

Thanks for the site.  I had heard about this culture from a friend of mine.

It is indeed true, that all we know is the past, and we try to divine
the future from it, sometimes successfully sometimes not.  More often
not since the future beyond a 24 hour period has so many possibilities
that we are continually adapting.

The way we go through life is like driving a car facing backwards.  We
maneuver the car based on what scenery has just passed us by.  We make
decisions based on what has been in the rear view mirror.  Now we
certainly would not trust a driver who drove that way.  Yet here we
are going full throttle down the highway of life as if we are turned
around looking forward!  Watch out for that truck!!!

Cheers,
Mark


On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Michael R. Brown <mrb at fuguewriter.com> wrote:
> Tell an old Aymara speaker to "face the past!" and you just might get a
> blank stare in return – because he or she already does.
>
> New analysis of the language and gesture of South America's indigenous
> Aymara people indicates a reverse concept of time.
>
> Contrary to what had been thought a cognitive universal among humans – a
> spatial metaphor for chronology, based partly on our bodies' orientation and
> locomotion, that places the future ahead of oneself and the past behind –
> the Amerindian group locates this imaginary abstraction the other way
> around: with the past ahead and the future behind.
>
> - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/06/060613185239.htm
>
>
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