[MD] Aboriginal Wisdom

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[Ian]
Thought MoQ'ers might find this recommendation interesting, from Bruce Lloyd
over on "Friends of Wisdom".

"For those interested in Aboriginal life and culture I would recommend the
fascinating and insightful book: ' Treading Lightly: The Hidden Wisdom of the
world's oldest people' by Karl-Erik Sveiby and Tex Skuthorpe ..."

[Arlo]
What is up with the frickin' Swedes! Are they taking over the world! :-) I
appreciate this recommendation, from a blogger's review...

"Perhaps even more uncomfortable to those clinging to the erroneous idea that
today’s globalised system, with its emphasis on individual liberty and
material well-being, is the knowledge that there are cultures that have
survived – and prospered – for over forty thousand years. Sveiby analyses
one of these cultures, the Nhungabarra nation of the Nhunggal country in
north-western New South Wales, with the assistance of painter, educator and
custodian of Nhungabarra stories, Tex Skuthorpe.

Sveiby makes well the point that, while the Indigenous peoples of the Australian
continent were able to thrive on this land for over forty millennia, Europeans,
with their unapologetic emphasis on exploitation, have largely destroyed that
same land in just two hundred years. Often, through unsustainable agricultural
and mining practices, the destruction has been ‘achieved’ in one
generation."

What amazes me (no, actually it doesn't, I understand it completely), is the
abject refusal of some to admit even the barest lesson we can learn from these
people, even when Pirsig devotes a significant portion of LILA to the Native
Americans, what we have learned from them, and how THEY are an example of a
non-SOMist culture, along with Japan, that exemplifies the direction we should
be heading... if we truly want to toss off the robes of SOM-foundational
thinking. "A part of the world, and not an enemy of it".

Recently, Case offered a list of what Platt dismissed as "left-wing talking
points", and yet all of them... as with Platt's list of responsibility, delayed
gratification and the like, are together, not apart, what we should be striving
for. But, as is always the case, love of the Party wins out over anything else.
(But, of course, since Arlo is now a declared "enemy of civilization" (my mom
would be proud), you can't trust anything I say).