We’re on the flip side. This, this has to be understood well by anyone in north america trying to move anything – at all, for anyone – forward in north america –
Native American and/or American Indian (the latter is what I usually use) history and literature was a year of my undergrad studies, and it almost killed me. I’d never felt so suicidal even after knowing and hating (as reaction) two people for doing it themselves. I can describe the pain as knowing why it’s perfectly logical to go through with it. And that’s, really, it. There’s no “ok well and this is why I didn’t”. You just crawl back from the recesses of your motherfucking HUMAN mind properly reacting to abject horror and devastation reined down on civilizations that existed in cooperation with others from all over the damned world for millennia and go, answer phones at a call center or whatever. The firsthand accounts, the source knowledge, isn’t so fucking far behind in the annals of history. The blood spilled remains within every road and building here, and I don’t mean that figuratively. This continent was trampled upon, and war was brought upon people who had no interest in starting one themselves.
I became acquainted with this semi-sniveling busybody who can’t shut the fuck up but I like her, and that’s probably mostly to her advantage. During our initial introduction, she spilled out a bunch of stuff that she viewed as altruistic, some of it is (selling and propagandizing native plants), but at the same time she is manipulative without fully understanding why, or maybe why she’s not very subtle and gives herself away in short order. After agreeing to purchase some plants from her, she gave me a handout on the importance of keeping native plants and avoiding all the typical landscaping ones from “Asia”, simply a huge foreign landmass whose plant exports in totality are going to throw everything off balance here in “the americas”; it’s a sentiment expressed in a way that I can imagine a racist democratic socialist from the 1910s attempting to articulate. She’s a well-to-do Catholic from Northern California, and because of those regional and religious inclinations, I felt like telling her to calm down a bit about the whole situation, as it exists now. Just take it down a notch, indulge in some locally made whiskey. I did not mostly because I appreciate the efforts to restore indigenous plants and pollinators for numerous reasons, but not everything that’s developed here was achieved by settler magic or by force. Evidence of contact and diplomacy between large civilizations and apparently just “the people who were here before us without one of their own” that demonstrates how this continent was affected by varied forms of trade and socialization is flatly ignored to really a psychotic degree. Off Vesta’s tweet and the excerpt he commented on encapsulates this ideological trajectory based on widely-spread, institutional/ized alibi –
I skimmed the page she left with me. The malthusian elements were glaringly obvious without having to read it in depth – we (who?) need these plants that in part help naturally maintain the “carrying capacity” of our one and only mother earth. I quickly crumpled it up and tossed it in the trash. What would we do without this white magic?
There are social media accounts that communicate fence-sitting and apologetics for not committing themselves to the struggles of actually existing indigenous people for existing while trying to appear as on the side of peace, and these are the people who will aid in bringing us to worldwide digital Gaza. In saying that, I think it’s obvious that Israel is reaching its expiration date, and most certainly not the other way around as the old school, BC (before covid) dixieland nativists have it, but the supremacism is the same, and it advanced significantly under covid with an HFCS glaze. Why oh why were Israelis protesting the green pass so massively ignored? Well the Americans of heavily sponsored Progressive pedigree said this is the way forward, so that’s that.
This politically organized supremacism is the same screaming insanity that served several purposes here before having to put it down like a rabid pit bull that’s not even satiated by the death and destruction it brings, because by that point, it’s let’s make a deal, spin the wheel in our nice suits and dresses. What will the dissolution of Israel bring? As Mobb Deep informed us, there’s no such thing as halfway crooks.
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