Good thought, wrong sub.
Yeah this ain’t a meme
Looking for the correct sub for this kind of content. Have a link?
Are western cultures not indigenous?
Or is this just more US defaultism?
Defaultism by default. It could also be the land of the upside-down, Canada, or anywhere else in the American continents.
Problem is I was born in a place and time where I need to do in order to be.
Don’t do the cat!
I feel like the caption doesn’t summarize the spirit of the quote. The indigenous folks cooked, told stories, made art, danced, fell in love, made enemies, had sports, and formed various unique cultures. There’s a lot of “doing” in a that. For me this reads as you don’t need to grind to make other people wealthy and collect a lot of plastic bullshit that Instagram convinced you was necessary for happiness. But like we’re all slowly, collectively realizing this right?
It’s always “western culture” being compared to a vague “indigenous culture” in these posts.
As a not very well-traveled American, I definitely read this as the US and our indigenous peoples. I suppose only the speaker truly knows who they were referencing. Or it’s intentionally vague to be relatable…
To me, the quote is another way of saying our ‘purpose’ is to be sensory organs for the universe: life is how the universe experiences itself.
The more you do, the more richly you contribute to that experience, but the caption’s take is also valid in that ‘being’ also contributes, if that makes sense.
(Disclaimer: I may be slightly high.)
I hear you, though the universe experiencing itself is due for reconsideration after I’m slightly high…
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We also do all that, the problem is that it’s all commodified, advertised, ultracompetitive, conspicuous and repackaged, like we need to relate to each other and nature through something that has come out of a factory or a pr firm. There are ways to escape this, but it comes at a social cost, but it gets better if you find others.
I hope we are. Based off some shit lords in here, I’m having my doubts.
Don’t lose heart. The kids already think Facebook is lame, X killed itself, most folks on the street have heard “if you aren’t buying anything you’re the product”, influencers are as frequently pitied as admired. I see glimmers of the needed changes in these things.
Also Nature: relentless, uncaring, powerful, unpredictable, and disastrous.
I hate it how hippies keep thinking nature is some Disney movie shit.
Nah, it ain’t, plants devouring ants alive, monkeys been waging wars and raping their enemies skulls
Ant super colony’s waging wars taking over full continents n shit.
You just described western culture, too.
“To be is to do” -Socrates
“To do is to be” -Jean-Paul Sartre
“Do be do be do” -Frank Sinatra
“DO THE DEW” -Mountain Dew
Baby shark do do do do do do…
Sorry don’t hate me
Holy shit does this instance have a mod? What a fucking shit show over such a positive picture.
Happy indigenous people day.
I already banned people in this thread, but I didn’t remove the comments as they were part of a discussion that was at least in part not total trolling.
I noticed! Sorry I doubted your work. I think Jerboa was failing to block people properly as well.
Being alive for the sake of being alive doesn’t do much to reduce infant and maternal mortality rates. Those are down from pre-industrial levels because incredibly smart people have worked incredibly hard over the last few hundred years.
Yeah, I’m inclined to generally agree with this; what she left out is that now most people can live past 30 now and not die from a bacterial infection after scraping their leg.
I would add that the ideal is likely somewhere in the middle between the extremes of “living off the land and using every part of the bison” and “grinding away your soul until you collapse on the Walmart floor.” Both are too far towards their respective ends of the spectrum.
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Imagine having such a reaction to a positive message.
Maybe reevaluate your values.
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You sure? I mean using the term libshit is pretty telling…
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Looks like someone escaped from the Hexbear echo-chamber and hasn’t realized yet that their phrasing is virtually indistinguishable from right-wing trash.
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are you really this naive
So you self label as a leftist then post some obviously negatively received “opinions” in an effort to make real left leaning folks look bad?
Poor guy’s playing 2D chess.
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You have -46 downvotes.
Is that what you call it? Here I’ve been telling everyone you’re a disappointment 🤷♂️
Racism? Which part of that is racist?
Or take blood pressure medication at least.
Or don’t.
I’m not your mom.
The world might be better off without you, if you happen to forget the meds.
How on earth do you make the jump from “some indigenous cultures believe this cool thing” to “fetishizing indigenous cultures as these perfect things”
Like, I don’t think they’re saying it’s true because some indigenous cultures believe it - and those specific indigenous cultures are to be trusted as a moral authority.
They’re just saying that some cultures believe this thing and they agree with that belief.
I guess I can’t know for sure what she meant without being able to ask her, but there’s no reason to assume she was making an extremely weird claim when that obviously isn’t necessarily true.
But I guess if you are willing to jump to that conclusion, you will see claims like that everywhere, and maybe that makes it seem like a safe assumption that that is what she’s saying.
(When I say “maybe,” I really do mean maybe. I’m not under the impression that I know everything about you, lol. I’m just exploring a possibility that there’s no real way for me to ever confirm or falsify. Just thinking out loud for curiosity’s sake.)
It contains the word “indigenous” so their brain jumps to “must hate”.
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That’s a rather empty way to live one’s life. While purpose isn’t an objective mandate from the heavens, it can be found within oneself, and struggling towards that ideal is where human beauty truly lies.
Europeans fucked everyone in the ass.
I hate doing 9-5 and hate myself. FML
Bro Europeans aren’t responsible for everything. If todays folks in your country wanted to do things differently then nothings stopping you
If todays folks in your country wanted to do things differently then nothings stopping you
US “anti-authoritarian” interventionalism has entered the chat. Just look at Vietnam, the Philippines, Hawai’i and Latin America.
Gotta blame whitey somehow
Bruh we started it now we need to finish it.
nothings stopping you
So like, is there some place I can go too live like that? One that isn’t private property or owned by the government, etc? I live in a place that is mostly open, mountainous areas, but they’re surrounded by barbed wire and 2nd Degree Tresspassing is a felony.
Not anymore because colonialism has essentially destroyed that way of life in its entirety.
The antarctic maybe? There isn’t much land that isn’t claimed by some group of people
Still trying to work out if being White British means I have a natural mystical connection to the land and spirituality.
Sure. To the land of Britain. Read up on the Druids and go dance around Stonehenge or something.
I have a soft spot for Wicca despite knowing it was mostly made up by white British people. Because it’s a deliberate mindful attempt to recapture the old ties between white British people and their land and ancestors that lie underneath sixteen hundred years of Christianity. And that’s worth doing.
Bet her idea of being one with nature is a picknick in central park lmao
Thanks!
