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Someone out there, right this moment, is living in a hut. It is not the idealized hut either in which Hollywood has helped us envision with temperature control and just the right amount of ambient sunlight through the jungle greens.

There is a word that is fitting for our current norms and way of life. The word is prepackaged. Everything comes in a box; our food, our clothes, we live in giant boxes, and we do our work in boxes. The whole point of living has become moving different types of boxes around in order to obtain more boxes for our constantly growing collection of boxes. So it is very difficult to imagine living outside the box. Let alone want to live outside it.

This is the case with several Brazilian Indian tribes which have stayed unseen for several years until the deforestation in the Amazon for the last decade has finally caught up with them. And there is nowhere to run to, for moving from Amazonian jungle to another inhabitable jungle is not exactly the same as changing area codes. About 1/5 of the Amazon has already been cut down. And for what reason? It is mostly likely for our boxes, big and small. We may not have the same ideals and goals in mind as these Brazilian Indian tribes, but we all deserve a home.