J’s Reviews > A Poison Stronger than Love: The Destruction of an Ojibwa Community > Status Update

The interviews are rich and fascinating. Peppered, among many other things, with comments on how the existence of government welfare has undermined motivation, morale, communal mutual aid, etc. in this tiny community whose vital extended family structure dissolved. is this a cautionary tale for advocates of UBI!? Are we all headed for collapse given AI and pollution and further family/communal breakdown!?

Disruption of the individual and communal orientation to space and to time. Complete loss of rituals that used to shape and structure the life course. Nothing substantial or relevant in their place… So awful, so tragic. What were the government planners thinking when they uprooted these Ojibwa? (What did they think if they ever saw the results?) And done in the context of such an innocuous outworking of colonialism