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The Moken, also known as the "sea gypsies", are a nomadic people living off the coasts of Burma and Thailand.
In their language, there is no word for " want."
Think about it.
(Above reported in The Sunday Times.)
This reminded me of my visit to the Quechuan Indians high up in the Andes in Peru in 1998. Most of the tribe had never met anyone from the " developed world" at that time.
In their language, there is no word for "I" nor indeed is there any word for "doubt."
I recall asking one of their leaders whether or not he ever got depressed. My English was translated to Spanish and then to Quechuan. Pasculito the Shaman was mindboggled by this word. Couldn't understand it!
No want, no I, no doubt - developed wisdom from an "undeveloped world."
Posted by Kevin Kelly at
November 22, 2005 12:36 PM