I understand why you highlighted “Remember that we all come from somewhere..." The second to last paragraph is gold. " a very special economy of attention to find enchantment" and "[t]he key to stopping the environmental apocalypse is not science but love.” As Robert Hunter put it Without Love in the Dream It Will Never Come True
Glad to see this part of the decolonization conversation carrying forward. This is such a crucial part of the cultural shift we need. In approaching these questions, I feel we need to take extreme care to avoid any spiritual bypassing of settler colonialism. Any relationship with stolen land, any sense of responsibility to it, necessarily includes (and arguably begins with) responsibility to the Indigenous people who are a part of it and who know best how to care for and relate to it. If we (those of us who are white settlers) are not actively returning any resources to them, we are perpetuating imbalance, just continuing to take, r*pe, extract, etc. So long as that continues, WE OURSELVES ARE the apocalypse manifested on this land (a certain cannibalistic being whose name I'll omit, known in various Algonquian cultures), from the perspective of all that is truly human, connected, and filled with the wonder you speak of. I'm hopeful that the paths you're building through your words can help lead us toward balance
This is an incredible and sadly, very timely piece. I'm going to be sitting with it for a while. Thank you.
I understand why you highlighted “Remember that we all come from somewhere..." The second to last paragraph is gold. " a very special economy of attention to find enchantment" and "[t]he key to stopping the environmental apocalypse is not science but love.” As Robert Hunter put it Without Love in the Dream It Will Never Come True
Glad to see this part of the decolonization conversation carrying forward. This is such a crucial part of the cultural shift we need. In approaching these questions, I feel we need to take extreme care to avoid any spiritual bypassing of settler colonialism. Any relationship with stolen land, any sense of responsibility to it, necessarily includes (and arguably begins with) responsibility to the Indigenous people who are a part of it and who know best how to care for and relate to it. If we (those of us who are white settlers) are not actively returning any resources to them, we are perpetuating imbalance, just continuing to take, r*pe, extract, etc. So long as that continues, WE OURSELVES ARE the apocalypse manifested on this land (a certain cannibalistic being whose name I'll omit, known in various Algonquian cultures), from the perspective of all that is truly human, connected, and filled with the wonder you speak of. I'm hopeful that the paths you're building through your words can help lead us toward balance