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"How, in our modern world, can we find our way to understand the earth as a gift again, to make our relations with the world sacred again?"
— Feb 12, 2023 09:26AM
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The Potawatami language the author is learning doesn't divide the world into masculine & feminine but into animate & inanimate. Forces of nature -- beings, plants, water -- are understood to be respected selves, not things. Now I'm thinking of how I've gradually adopted feminine pronouns for (lifeless) objects. (It's a quirk adapted from too much queer YouTube.) It seems to raise the things' status somehow.
— Feb 12, 2023 12:14PM
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Consider the story of Skywoman (an indigenous creation story) vs. the story of Eve. An ancestral gardener who creates, vs. an exile who suffers and subdues. These stories shape cultures' relationships with the living world.
— Feb 11, 2023 11:25AM
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"For the greater part of human history, and in places in the world today, common resources were the rule. But some invented a different story, a social construct in which everything is a commodity to be bought and sold. The market economy has spread like wildfire, with uneven results for human well-being and devastation for the natural world. But it is just a story we have told ourselves and we are free to tell another, to reclaim the old one."
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