Myra Beatrice’s Reviews > Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World > Status Update
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“It is difficult to talk to people about the impossible physics of civilisation, especially if you are Aboriginal: you perform and display the paint and feathers, the pretty bits of your culture, and talk about your unique connection to the land while people look through glass boxes at you, but you are not supposed to look back, or describe what you see.”
— Oct 16, 2025 05:25AM
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“Your culture is not what your hands touch or make—it’s what moves your hands.”
— Oct 20, 2025 02:37AM
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“But if we think about it for a moment, jobs are not what we want. We want shelter, food, strong relationships, a liveable habitat, stimulating learning activity and time to perform valued tasks in which we excel. I don’t know of many jobs that will allow access to more than two or three of those things at a time…”
— Oct 18, 2025 08:12PM
Myra Beatrice
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“Oldman Juma says all this…will continue to happen as the universe breathes in and out. You can live with it, but you need to adapt and change every aspect of your society and culture when transitioning from one era to the next.”
— Oct 17, 2025 05:43PM
Myra Beatrice
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“When it comes to global environmental catastrophe the jury is done deliberating and the case is closed. It requires no more debate. This apocalypse is real. On the upside, apocalypses have proven to be survivable in the past, although on the downside it usually means that your culture and society will never be the same again…”
— Oct 17, 2025 05:43PM
Myra Beatrice
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“Anyone who thinks they’re better than a rock should be turned into one — then they would find out they’re not that special, and they could finally be happy.”
— Oct 15, 2025 07:17PM
Myra Beatrice
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“Engaging with [narcissists] alone is futile — never wrestle a pig, as the old saying goes; you both end up covered in shit, and the pig likes it. The fundamental rules of human interaction do not apply to them, although they weaponise those rules against everyone else.”
— Oct 12, 2025 02:24PM
Myra Beatrice
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“Containing the excesses of malignant narcissists is a team effort.”
— Oct 12, 2025 02:21PM
Myra Beatrice
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“I don’t know why Stephen Hawking and others have worried about super-intelligent beings from other planets coming here and using their advanced knowledge to do to the world what industrial civilisation has already done.”
— Oct 01, 2025 02:44PM
