https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6837611
The Battle Of The Golf Course.
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@fugitivephilo
3 years ago
"To destroy the colonial world means nothing less than demolishing the colonist's sector, burying it deep within the earth or banishing it from the territory." —Frantz Fanon, Wretched of the Earth.
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I just received my Maya Hieroglyphics Dictionary, nicely tight wrapped and compressed in modern plastic.
It has over 1100 symbols, which can give an impression of the common themes that likely played on the minds of the people by appearing all around as motifs and were intelligible in other ways for the literate.
I am not an Arab, I make use of the Qur'an. I am not a Roman, I use Roman Text writing, we use the Phoenician Alphabet which was heavily influenced by the Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics. I am not from those various tribes of people from around the world, but use their ideas as I please, such as the people of India, like the Hindus and Buddhists, and many others.
So too are these things from the Americas, long abandoned by most, available to the modern nowhere people, available to use as one pleases, and in my opinion, ideally in the most useful, inspiring, creative, intelligent, and beneficial ways. Why shouldn't all human material and products be available for use to the other humans later? The Non-Muslims don't offer any particular respect to the things connected to Islam that they scoff at, and the J people are highly xenophobic and supremacist while having a long history of apparent appropriation from surrounding cultures that they supposedly worked harm in gleefully, and only now do we hear a lot more about people trying to gatekeep and possess for their in group certain things which limit their overall scope and range of further influence, so they are actually limiting the life of any of these materials, like the life of a "virus" or gene.
To me, these things no longer, and really perhaps never did belong to anyone in particular, they were communications that were broadly used by whoever could make use of them, seen wherever they were seen, which referred to what was known and experienced and universally public and free, the elements, the things in nature, the heavenly bodies like the stars, and no one on the Earth owns these things exclusively or ever should be allowed to make such a claim. People should be slain who try to horde up the air, the water, and exploit things, both considered inert and unliving and the living things.
Instead we have total mismanagement of what is owned, so that the people living here for example are shipping out all their natural resources outside and importing other natural resources to themselves, pretty ridiculously, so thst our local prices for things that we have around are higher than they should be because we don't get the primary access to them!
This sort of stuff is so depressing. I am not an Arab, I am not from the Mayan places, but I use these things, and I feel that whoever uses them and makes use of them may be a more respectable heir to them than those who don't really, or who approach them in a more mangled fashion post-Christianization and being chewed up by the colonial machine.
I believe that the baseline of communication from humans has remained largely the same, that there is only one true religion which is all inclusive of everything anyone has thought up so far and used across the world, and that we can pick and choose, accept and reject, just like anything in the day that we pick and choose and accept and reject, and I don't draw too harah of a line between the truth I can extract and explain from fiction or from nature, or from fictionalizing nature or naturalizing fiction and making it relate to the apparent reality even if it was produced based on available ideas from this reality in order to operate in a fictional world originally, the intentions of any of these artists is secondary or of less concern as to what I may be able to do with anything for my own pleasure in this brief set of experiences in this reality.
What u have, want, w b can't have, h b don't want, & what it means!
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