bomber

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"Bomber" is derived from the
cargo cult in New Guinea.
During WWII the supplies were
dropped by parachute to the allied troops
in the New Guinea jungle.
Often the supplies would go astray
and the indigenous people would
find free "cargo."

The end of the war brought the end of the planes and thus the end of the cargo, whereupon the natives built effigies of the planes and prayed to them to return.

With our dependence on transportation, perhaps we should constuct our own
fetish images.

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