#IndigenousHistory #IndigenousKnowledgeIsNotAllPastTense of the place now called #Australia
This is a fantastic introductory-but-not-shallow resource offered via the ABC (australian broadcasting commission).
reading one of the stories here about the emu in the sky, and how that story reminds us of signs if we are in a time of drought, I was reminded of what Tyson Yunkaporta says about the Indigenous worldview (not in this resource but in Tyson’s brilliant book Right Story, Wrong Story)
In a thought experiment he calls <Schrodinger’s Wombat>, Tyson compares how western culture thinks about the world (in terms of closed, static systems with a limited number of discrete variables) and the way Indigenous people see the world — systems are open, dynamic, and have an endless number of variables. Relationships show the variables constantly affecting each other.
“A wombat is in a hollow log, and we have to decide whether it is alive or dead. However, because the log is not an enclosed system, we are aware of the thousands of exchanges of energy, matter and information between the log and the surrounding country. We see what the insects are doing, the fungi on the log and surrounding trees, how the wombat behaves in that particular season. We see its fresh scat on a nearby rock. We feel the wind direction and the recent tracks that tell us about the animal's behaviour and condition. We see no sign of recent snake activity (although you're never more than ten metres away from a snake in the bush). We see a thousand things and know that the wombat is alive and inside the log. We see this because we are not only thinking about the log and what might be inside. Rather, we are an integral part of the dynamic system of that country, which is observing itself through our relationship. So we share in the exchange of energy and information in that system and are therefore not intervening in the system from the outside”
anyway, the emu story that got me excited was called
Stars tell Mutthi Mutthi people went to collect emu eggs
and it’s in the story section headed Emu in the sky
https://www.abc.net.au/news/deeptime/tell-me-a-story/
#Auspol #USpol #History #ItalianHistory #Fascism #DodgyAndGreatLeaders
#Reading or more like dipping into
B. A. SANTAMARIA
ITALY CHANGES SHIRTS:
THE ORIGINS OF ITALIAN FASCISM
MA THESIS
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
1934
and am enjoying focusing on sentences and letting my mind mull over ideas while i do/ watch/ read other stuffs. this might become a thread with occasional ramblings.
i’m struck by some parallels with USA (how could one not be?) but for context am reminded mussolini had established himself as leader much earlier than hitler and was, in fact, admired by hitler. (i think a great deal of hitler’s success was down to goebbels.) both mussolini and hitler lived in a time when the ongoing war of ideas between communism and capitalism were front and centre.
the labels and the details morph and change over time, but when our previous opposition leader threw words like “liberal”, “commie” or “woke” around, i suspect it was really more of the same.
in the red corner, people who think governments can and should care about everyone, and in the blue corner, those who think individualism is essential to god’s grand design.
I wonder, sometimes, if the USA is one western country that never really had a “left” at all.
On the very first page of his thesis, Santamaria suggests the Italian public embraced fascism (and the idea of a strong leader) because parliamentary democracy seemed to suck.
(Echos of this in Trump’s “drain the swamp” rhetoric, and his now open contempt for the system altogether)
Discussing Mussolini, Santamaria goes on to say Lenin believed “the only man who could successfully rule Italy was the one who reproduced in himself the main characteristics of the great mass of Italians”
The USA has a problematic electoral system, and many people are disenfranchised in one way or another. I don’t want to slander an entire nation, but I do wonder how many people found it easier to identify with Trump than with Harris?
Closer to home, how well do we identify with this or that type of leader in Australia? Do we reject potential leaders more easily than we embrace them?
1975 in Australia was a disappointment, but I distinctly remember that, apart from the scare about whitlam overspending/ seeking dodgy loans from someone with a foreign name, a lot of people were fed up with having to vote, and all the campaigning that goes with more-frequent-than-usual elections.
a mini cli-fi romance
lena dollarhart was satisfied at last.
*she had got max value from the last of her fully automated coal mines before demand for coal dried up.
*she had her own logistics supply depot sealed up with enough groceries to last five years, so the collapse of the supply chain was not a problem. a repurposed coal wagon and rail had been installed to move supplies, as needed, from the depot to the homestead. it could be returned, when empty, by treadmill-powered winch.
*she had massive cattle properties across the mainland, and had even managed to build a mega hydro-dam before the river systems collapsed, a series of massive solar collection panels stretched from one side of the dam to the other, providing not just power, but shade to reduce evaporation.
*people were finally queueing up, begging for a chance to work for $2 a day AND … she could finally tell most of them to pfaff off
—o0o—
a few kilometres away from the homestead, a group of carefully selected workers emerged from their hut, to commence ground breaking operations on the garden that should keep her in fresh fruit and veg while the planet recovered from the intense financial competition she had so deservedly won
in went a hoe, removing a clod of promising soil only to reveal a plastic bag of carefully preserved dog poo. a few metres over, another worker uncovered a dead dildo. a few metres more, in went a hoe, uncovering …
Dead White Man’s Clothes
how fast/ cheap fashions are destroying the planet
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-12/fast-fashion-turning-parts-ghana-into-toxic-landfill/100358702
#IndigenousHistory #IndigenousKnowledgeIsNotAllPastTense of the place now called #Australia
This is a fantastic introductory-but-not-shallow resource offered via the ABC (australian broadcasting commission).
reading one of the stories here about the emu in the sky, and how that story reminds us of signs if we are in a time of drought, I was reminded of what Tyson Yunkaporta says about the Indigenous worldview (not in this resource but in Tyson’s brilliant book Right Story, Wrong Story)
In a thought experiment he calls <Schrodinger’s Wombat>, Tyson compares how western culture thinks about the world (in terms of closed, static systems with a limited number of discrete variables) and the way Indigenous people see the world — systems are open, dynamic, and have an endless number of variables. Relationships show the variables constantly affecting each other.
“A wombat is in a hollow log, and we have to decide whether it is alive or dead. However, because the log is not an enclosed system, we are aware of the thousands of exchanges of energy, matter and information between the log and the surrounding country. We see what the insects are doing, the fungi on the log and surrounding trees, how the wombat behaves in that particular season. We see its fresh scat on a nearby rock. We feel the wind direction and the recent tracks that tell us about the animal's behaviour and condition. We see no sign of recent snake activity (although you're never more than ten metres away from a snake in the bush). We see a thousand things and know that the wombat is alive and inside the log. We see this because we are not only thinking about the log and what might be inside. Rather, we are an integral part of the dynamic system of that country, which is observing itself through our relationship. So we share in the exchange of energy and information in that system and are therefore not intervening in the system from the outside”
anyway, the emu story that got me excited was called
Stars tell Mutthi Mutthi people went to collect emu eggs
and it’s in the story section headed Emu in the sky
https://www.abc.net.au/news/deeptime/tell-me-a-story/
#Auspol #USpol #History #ItalianHistory #Fascism #DodgyAndGreatLeaders
#Reading or more like dipping into
B. A. SANTAMARIA
ITALY CHANGES SHIRTS:
THE ORIGINS OF ITALIAN FASCISM
MA THESIS
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
1934
and am enjoying focusing on sentences and letting my mind mull over ideas while i do/ watch/ read other stuffs. this might become a thread with occasional ramblings.
i’m struck by some parallels with USA (how could one not be?) but for context am reminded mussolini had established himself as leader much earlier than hitler and was, in fact, admired by hitler. (i think a great deal of hitler’s success was down to goebbels.) both mussolini and hitler lived in a time when the ongoing war of ideas between communism and capitalism were front and centre.
the labels and the details morph and change over time, but when our previous opposition leader threw words like “liberal”, “commie” or “woke” around, i suspect it was really more of the same.
in the red corner, people who think governments can and should care about everyone, and in the blue corner, those who think individualism is essential to god’s grand design.
I wonder, sometimes, if the USA is one western country that never really had a “left” at all.
On the very first page of his thesis, Santamaria suggests the Italian public embraced fascism (and the idea of a strong leader) because parliamentary democracy seemed to suck.
(Echos of this in Trump’s “drain the swamp” rhetoric, and his now open contempt for the system altogether)
Discussing Mussolini, Santamaria goes on to say Lenin believed “the only man who could successfully rule Italy was the one who reproduced in himself the main characteristics of the great mass of Italians”
The USA has a problematic electoral system, and many people are disenfranchised in one way or another. I don’t want to slander an entire nation, but I do wonder how many people found it easier to identify with Trump than with Harris?
Closer to home, how well do we identify with this or that type of leader in Australia? Do we reject potential leaders more easily than we embrace them?
1975 in Australia was a disappointment, but I distinctly remember that, apart from the scare about whitlam overspending/ seeking dodgy loans from someone with a foreign name, a lot of people were fed up with having to vote, and all the campaigning that goes with more-frequent-than-usual elections.
a mini cli-fi romance
lena dollarhart was satisfied at last.
*she had got max value from the last of her fully automated coal mines before demand for coal dried up.
*she had her own logistics supply depot sealed up with enough groceries to last five years, so the collapse of the supply chain was not a problem. a repurposed coal wagon and rail had been installed to move supplies, as needed, from the depot to the homestead. it could be returned, when empty, by treadmill-powered winch.
*she had massive cattle properties across the mainland, and had even managed to build a mega hydro-dam before the river systems collapsed, a series of massive solar collection panels stretched from one side of the dam to the other, providing not just power, but shade to reduce evaporation.
*people were finally queueing up, begging for a chance to work for $2 a day AND … she could finally tell most of them to pfaff off
—o0o—
a few kilometres away from the homestead, a group of carefully selected workers emerged from their hut, to commence ground breaking operations on the garden that should keep her in fresh fruit and veg while the planet recovered from the intense financial competition she had so deservedly won
in went a hoe, removing a clod of promising soil only to reveal a plastic bag of carefully preserved dog poo. a few metres over, another worker uncovered a dead dildo. a few metres more, in went a hoe, uncovering …
Dead White Man’s Clothes
how fast/ cheap fashions are destroying the planet
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-12/fast-fashion-turning-parts-ghana-into-toxic-landfill/100358702
#Minorities
not planning to make a habit of tooting tweets here, i’d like to keep this gem from Jim Rossignol (which i originally found of Facebook) with me for a few more years 💐
Maude Nificent