As long as ignorance about this continent’s colonization is perpetuated, as long as our society is conditioned to overlook the scars that continue to define it, the violence we’ve seen this month will persist. And as the U.S. empire’s decline continues, the reaction from a threatened settler-colonial apparatus will make the violence keep getting worse. When the latest product of the online hate sphere shot up a store in Buffalo, New York last week, killing ten black people, he was acting on behalf of this reaction. He was carrying out the logical conclusion of the belief that whites have a right to rule this land, and that their rule must be maintained by any means necessary.
Thank you Rainer for a very insightful article, well written.
It has inspired me to use the notion of 'aligning the individual's quest for significance with the shared objectives of a collective' as a strategy for unification.
My own essay attempting to illuminate humanity's evolved plight and possible strategies for self-rescue on the link below. I originally titled it "Aimless in the Anthropocene" but the publisher didn't use the title.
Thank you Rainer for a very insightful article, well written.
It has inspired me to use the notion of 'aligning the individual's quest for significance with the shared objectives of a collective' as a strategy for unification.
My own essay attempting to illuminate humanity's evolved plight and possible strategies for self-rescue on the link below. I originally titled it "Aimless in the Anthropocene" but the publisher didn't use the title.
https://johnmenadue.com/could-a-knowledge-commons-unite-and-anchor-our-fractious-drifting-humanity/