11-18-2016, 02:45 AM
I have enjoyed reading about mountain climbing. Mountains are generated by monstrous geologic forces that take place over a geologic time frame of hundreds of thousands or millions of years. We're talking earthquakes and land slides on a scale that can and have killed thousands of people. Such events still do kill mountain climbers who are clambering around on the most unstable features of the earth, mountains. I forget the individual I am about to quote or where I read it but I think it was in "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer but one climbing instructor was known to admonish his students that "geologic time includes now" as a way to remind them not to needlessly hang out under precariously teetering boulders and the like which might have stood for 100,000 years but which still might fall at any time.
Why do "traditional Hawaiian cultural practices" not uniformly include now? In Mr Ishibashi I saw a Native Hawaiian practicing his culture. Every culture has rules. Sometimes the application of such rules is imperfect but if you think that there weren't people equivalent to him 500 years ago then you are being very selective in your view of history.
What goes around comes around. Mr Ishibashi is a Native Hawaiian who was living his life and doing his job as he saw fit, keeping things moving forward and basically adhering to a code of reasonableness. No permit after 30 days? Well whoever tipped that rock up must not care that much then or must know that their application is unlikely to meet the required criteria of the prevailing culture. Just like in the old days although back then the "permit process" was undoubtedly much more "streamlined".
Why do "traditional Hawaiian cultural practices" not uniformly include now? In Mr Ishibashi I saw a Native Hawaiian practicing his culture. Every culture has rules. Sometimes the application of such rules is imperfect but if you think that there weren't people equivalent to him 500 years ago then you are being very selective in your view of history.
What goes around comes around. Mr Ishibashi is a Native Hawaiian who was living his life and doing his job as he saw fit, keeping things moving forward and basically adhering to a code of reasonableness. No permit after 30 days? Well whoever tipped that rock up must not care that much then or must know that their application is unlikely to meet the required criteria of the prevailing culture. Just like in the old days although back then the "permit process" was undoubtedly much more "streamlined".