I am in a happy hut right now. I traveled half-way around the world in search of indigenous people to learn from their unique way of life. Now here I am in happy hut—the Thai Starbucks with iced lattes, green tea, and Jobim. It is hard to believe that the bassa-nova groove creating this coffee shop ambience in rural Thailand were actually composed by rural indigenous people in Brazil. The irony of it makes me reassess the importance of traveling all the way over here. It was quite an expense to travel half way around the world to type on my mac book in a coffee shop when I could have just footed it down from my college dorm room to La Spieza. It seams that the developing world has caught on quite quickly to how relaxing it is to spend an afternoon in a coffee shop to some gentle jazz with wireless internet. Now don’t get me wrong there are still a great number of people working in very hard conditions in this country, but when you look toward development you have to ask, why is everyone working so hard to get out of their ‘poverty’ and into neon development.
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