Tag: native

NATIVE WISDOM BEYOND CLIMATE CHANGE

C-Span hosted a call-in discussion on the topic of age limits for political-office holders.  This seems to bring to mind cultures that respect the experience of elders while young people are leaders. Americans need look no further for a model than Native communities.  But principles need to be measured in terms of wisdom and experience as compared to terms of greed and privilege.  If this isn’t the case, a critical limitation on knowledge stops us in 1619, as seems to be the case. read more

FOG OF CAPITALISM

Theoretically capitalism will meet the needs of the most people with little to no governmental intervention.  FACTually speaking the evidence tells a different story.  In “the West” capitalism is equated with democracy and contrary to communism.  In reality capitalism and communism are both hierarchical while democracy is not hierarchical.  The propaganda about these topics have been profound and is the work of corporate-owned-government-controlled media in a manner that brings to mind fascism. read more

AMERICANS

The label of American can be used to include many more people than those residing in the USA, but to use this definition to exclude US citizens seems interesting.
Mitch McConnell needs to define his notion of “American” for us—-
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THE STRENGTH OF NATIVE


The incredible diversity of species found in the American woods is easy to overlook, but incalculably delightful and important.
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