However Alaska’s policies still encompass the original mentality, forming corporations entails a certain level of integration into our culture.
I read an article about a single surviving member of a tribe in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil. He’s been living in isolation for over a decade and has heavily resisted any contact (Putting an arrow through a mans chest).
Recent legislations have made development of native lands illegal in Brazil, so the loggers have resulted to running people out or killing them. The tribe of this individual is thought to have been killed in this way.
It saddens me to think that the expansion of our culture referenced by Ishmael is still very much working today. Even when a government is able to see coexistence, our culture still demands absolute domination.
Gabe, I would definitely have to agree with you. In our society, you either conform to our ways or you're wiped out and if not wiped out, then you are looked at as an outsider. I think this is our biggest downfall, the loss of diversity. One of my favorite quotes from Ishmael is this, "Many peoples among the Leavers practiced agriculture, but they were never obsessed by the delusion that what they were doing was right, that everyone in the entire world had to practice agriculture, that every last square yard of the planet had to be devoted to it. They didn't say to the people around them, `You may no longer live by hunting and gathering. This is wrong. This is evil, and we forbid it. Put your land under cultivation or we'll wipe you out.' What they said was, `You want to be hunter-gatherers? That's fine with us. That's great. We want to be agriculturalists. You be hunter-gatherers and we'll be agriculturalists. We don't pretend to know which way is right. We just know which way we prefer." The Leavers allowed room for diversirty, and we as Takers do not. Loss of diversity will be our greatest downfall.
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