there has never been a colonial system without corruption*
pre-colonial societies had ways of being and existing that colonists erased and eliminated. we exist in the broken world colonists created and the main thing preventing us from building a better world is a lack of imagination that a better world is even possible
There have always been chiefs and patriarchies, unnecessary starvation and war. Not having electricity didn’t make the gauls or goths more noble in their savagery, nor even the lakota for all their spiritualism about coexistence with nature.
i’m well aware that indigenous societies aren’t perfect. however refusing to draw wisdom from groups that found things that worked exceptionally well like the Haudenosaunee, Shawnee, and Muscogee is frankly irresponsible and is just a continued process of subjugating knowlege.
the greatest knowledge on offer throughout history has been that a society that allows for a small group to own everything, and a large group to own nothing, will always turn to police states, oppressive subjugation, and the worst things that humanity is capable of
there has never been a colonial system without corruption*
pre-colonial societies had ways of being and existing that colonists erased and eliminated. we exist in the broken world colonists created and the main thing preventing us from building a better world is a lack of imagination that a better world is even possible
There have always been chiefs and patriarchies, unnecessary starvation and war. Not having electricity didn’t make the gauls or goths more noble in their savagery, nor even the lakota for all their spiritualism about coexistence with nature.
i’m well aware that indigenous societies aren’t perfect. however refusing to draw wisdom from groups that found things that worked exceptionally well like the Haudenosaunee, Shawnee, and Muscogee is frankly irresponsible and is just a continued process of subjugating knowlege.
the greatest knowledge on offer throughout history has been that a society that allows for a small group to own everything, and a large group to own nothing, will always turn to police states, oppressive subjugation, and the worst things that humanity is capable of