Going native.
A very great vision is needed and the man
who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks
the deepest blue of the sky.
-Crazy Horse-
They sit around and watch her die because the money isn't there.
Inhumane rules and regulations buried in fine print. The doctor stands idle waiting to operate but not until the bullshit bureaucratic requirements are met. Put a fat check in the boss's hands and the cure is found. Shit out a brick of gold and her life is suddenly worth saving.
They dont need money, they need respect.
"There are too many people, and too few human beings. " - Robert Zand
My wealth is gone. My inheritance spent.
27 first editions and a run of Sandman auctioned for blood money.
"Once I was in Victoria, and I saw a very large house. They told me it was a bank and that the white men place their money there to be taken care of, and that by and by they got it back with interest. "We are Indians and we have no such bank; but when we have plenty of money or blankets, we give them away to other chiefs and people, and by and by they return them with interest, and our hearts feel good. Our way of giving is our bank." - Chief Maquinna, Nootka
Gold has no better in their world. And they have proven this to me beyond ANY doubt.
I can not accurately express my frothing hatred for this kind of human behavior.
Non-human hollowed white-eyed mother fuckers.
Only after the last tree has been cut down;
Only after the last fish has been caught;
Only after the last river has been poisoned;
Only then will you realize
that money cannot be eaten.
-Cree Indian Prophecy
I can no longer live in this contrived and cruel paradigm without being infected by their grotesque societal disease.
"The white people, who are trying to make us over into their image, they want us to be what they call "assimilated," bringing the Indians into the mainstream and destroying our own way of life and our own cultural patterns. They believe we should be contented like those whose concept of happiness is materialistic and greedy, which is very different from our way. We want freedom from the white man rather than to be integrated. We don't want any part of the establishment, we want to be free to raise our children in our religion, in our ways, to be able to hunt and fish and live in peace. We don't want power, we don't want to be congressmen, or bankers.... we want to be ourselves. We want to have our heritage, because we are the owners of this land and because we belong here. The white man says, there is freedom and justice for all. We have had "freedom and justice," and that is why we have been almost exterminated. We shall not forget this."
- From the 1927 Grand Council of American Indians
I must leave before I cave and become a nine-to-five slave. I must flee while there is still time, while my mind is young and palpable, before it turns to solid stone. No matter the cost; I must leave before they convert me and destroy my self respect. No matter the cost.
"If today I had a young mind to direct, to start on the journey of life, and I was faced with the duty of choosing between the natural way of my forefathers and that of the... present way of civilization, I would, for its welfare, unhesitatingly set that child's feet in the path of my forefathers. I would raise him to be an Indian!" - Tom Brown, Jr., The Tracker
Despite the hypocrisy I will have to get one last demeaning corporate job. Pay my debts, throw my parents some cash for supporting my ass thus far, another wad of cash to feed me until I can learn the skills of true self-sustenance that my American forefathers conveniently neglected to teach me. And if the job pays enough Ill buy 120 gigs worth of mp3 players so I can bring along my beloved music collection.
Once done I will depart. I think Ill walk to the southern most point of this continent. There I will turn around with the ocean at my back and ponder over what Ive left behind. If the journey is what I hoped it would be I will continue on with my simple and native lifestyle. Maybe hop on a boat and sail to South Africa then walk to Korea.
In my present state of mind I can not honestly think of anything more fulfilling to do with my life. I just hope I can find a companion somewhere along the way. Or even before.
"Not all who wander are lost." - Tolkien
who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks
the deepest blue of the sky.
-Crazy Horse-
They sit around and watch her die because the money isn't there.
Inhumane rules and regulations buried in fine print. The doctor stands idle waiting to operate but not until the bullshit bureaucratic requirements are met. Put a fat check in the boss's hands and the cure is found. Shit out a brick of gold and her life is suddenly worth saving.
They dont need money, they need respect.
"There are too many people, and too few human beings. " - Robert Zand
My wealth is gone. My inheritance spent.
27 first editions and a run of Sandman auctioned for blood money.
"Once I was in Victoria, and I saw a very large house. They told me it was a bank and that the white men place their money there to be taken care of, and that by and by they got it back with interest. "We are Indians and we have no such bank; but when we have plenty of money or blankets, we give them away to other chiefs and people, and by and by they return them with interest, and our hearts feel good. Our way of giving is our bank." - Chief Maquinna, Nootka
Gold has no better in their world. And they have proven this to me beyond ANY doubt.
I can not accurately express my frothing hatred for this kind of human behavior.
Non-human hollowed white-eyed mother fuckers.
Only after the last tree has been cut down;
Only after the last fish has been caught;
Only after the last river has been poisoned;
Only then will you realize
that money cannot be eaten.
-Cree Indian Prophecy
I can no longer live in this contrived and cruel paradigm without being infected by their grotesque societal disease.
"The white people, who are trying to make us over into their image, they want us to be what they call "assimilated," bringing the Indians into the mainstream and destroying our own way of life and our own cultural patterns. They believe we should be contented like those whose concept of happiness is materialistic and greedy, which is very different from our way. We want freedom from the white man rather than to be integrated. We don't want any part of the establishment, we want to be free to raise our children in our religion, in our ways, to be able to hunt and fish and live in peace. We don't want power, we don't want to be congressmen, or bankers.... we want to be ourselves. We want to have our heritage, because we are the owners of this land and because we belong here. The white man says, there is freedom and justice for all. We have had "freedom and justice," and that is why we have been almost exterminated. We shall not forget this."
- From the 1927 Grand Council of American Indians
I must leave before I cave and become a nine-to-five slave. I must flee while there is still time, while my mind is young and palpable, before it turns to solid stone. No matter the cost; I must leave before they convert me and destroy my self respect. No matter the cost.
"If today I had a young mind to direct, to start on the journey of life, and I was faced with the duty of choosing between the natural way of my forefathers and that of the... present way of civilization, I would, for its welfare, unhesitatingly set that child's feet in the path of my forefathers. I would raise him to be an Indian!" - Tom Brown, Jr., The Tracker
Despite the hypocrisy I will have to get one last demeaning corporate job. Pay my debts, throw my parents some cash for supporting my ass thus far, another wad of cash to feed me until I can learn the skills of true self-sustenance that my American forefathers conveniently neglected to teach me. And if the job pays enough Ill buy 120 gigs worth of mp3 players so I can bring along my beloved music collection.
Once done I will depart. I think Ill walk to the southern most point of this continent. There I will turn around with the ocean at my back and ponder over what Ive left behind. If the journey is what I hoped it would be I will continue on with my simple and native lifestyle. Maybe hop on a boat and sail to South Africa then walk to Korea.
In my present state of mind I can not honestly think of anything more fulfilling to do with my life. I just hope I can find a companion somewhere along the way. Or even before.
"Not all who wander are lost." - Tolkien