Apathy, coupled with an unwillingness to hear a call that would demand a response from each of us individually (let's stay comfortable) may have undone yet another attempt at freedom. I hope you all run out of food and get a clue because you are too fat to even think anymore, Joe America. You are truly a waste of space. I hate to think what would have happened in France in 1789 if the call for revolution was met by lard.
If there is one thing I have learned from all of this, it is that colonized people come from all backgrounds and races, as do those that are not. It seems to be a part of being colonized to colonize others.
Make no mistake - if you are worried about where your money is going to come from if you revolt, then you are COLONIZED. Some of us have been colonized for way more than five hundred years; we can see too.
"What we have to understand is that in order for Europeans to do what they have done to virtually all non-Europeans, all non-Westerners on the planet, they had to colonize themselves. These colonizers are colonized.
They too are indigenous people. Not here. But somewhere they are indigenous people, with indigenous traditions and understandings of the land, and all the things we counterpoise to the predator reality that engulfs us now. They need to get back in touch with that, you see. They must recover that which has been taken from them in the process of colonization, taken in the same fashion that things are being taken from us, now.
Euro-Americans have got to psychologically and intellectually reverse the process of colonization, to find out what went wrong for them clear back in the beginning. And then they can begin to recover knowledge of those traditions, to bring about the decolonization of Europe itself, most of all the European mind.
And it may be that we can be helpful to them in that regard, once they have recognized the need for that to occur, to get back to what it meant to be Gaelic or Celtic, to find out what Anglo-Saxon meant before the synthesis of "Europe" was effected.
When that occurs there is no more European mind, there's the human mind. I can talk to Basques and Celts. I can't talk to Europeans. Not in the sense of people who come from a given piece of geography or a people who occupy a certain mental space.
It's getting back in touch with your self, your origins, your continuity, your sense of balance in this universe. These people could never be indigenous here. It doesn't mean they can't be here. It just means they can't be indigenous here. There is a set of consequences and relations that stem from that. We can deal with that if we can properly understand it."
we *are* going to set ourselves free and show the rest of the world how it's done. it isn't too late. we, each of us, all of us, HAVE to do it. for the kids. my children deserve to inherit a much better world than the one i grew up in! don't they all?
but you are right - if we fail, it won't be because we tried and failed, it will be because we didn't care enough to even try.
http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/2008/02/20/1452.aspx
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I would agree, colonization is a process that has been going on for many, many years and has allowed the US and other European powers to become dominators of the world. However, one has to remember that the Lakota peoples originally colonized the Dakotas (around 600-400 years ago if one believes the linguists) from the Chippewa and Plains tribes. Prior to that someone else colonized someone else. At some point we have to move forward - not keep standing on the basis of past events. The Lakota people are a sovereign Native American nation and thus any secession seems anachronistic to both their cause and to reality. I think their time, and our efforts, are better spent getting the US government to start honoring the treaties it signed with the Native Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries.
You and I are using the word "colonization" differently. Centralized, imperial power was never wielded on this continent before white people. The mindset I speak of was not here; I don't mean that conflicts didn't exist.
Aztecs, for example, in Central America may have had a semblance of imperialism but that, of course, has nothing to do with the Lakota.
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