Yeah you guys got a really shit deal, and the really unforgivable part is that you’re still getting more shit deals even today. I’m a descendant of the colonizers, but I’m willing to help get rid of any of the ones who perpetuate these shit deals and don’t think you guys absolutely deserve to be in charge around here. I mean, I’ll go too, if you want, but I’m just putting it out there that I’d also be delighted to try to learn from and live in a society run by potentially actually wise elders instead of greedy old white men. Maybe someday we’ll get to give it a try.
What is crazy is this was actually a huge problem for frontier settlements. Tonnes of people would meet the indigenous population, be exposed to their society, learn enough of their language to communicate, and then go “fuck this” to all the European culture and just move in with the locals. They brought whatever skills they had including metalworking and so on and joined up and for the most part it went really really well for them, until the westerners came and killed everyone. Behind The Bastards had a great episode a few years ago about it, through the lens of one particular bastard, and yeah, faced with a culture where individuals were not exploited for every last shilling of value to the shareholders people wanted out.
Native American here: we have been trying and failing for 400 years now and could really use some help from everyone.
Yeah you guys got a really shit deal, and the really unforgivable part is that you’re still getting more shit deals even today. I’m a descendant of the colonizers, but I’m willing to help get rid of any of the ones who perpetuate these shit deals and don’t think you guys absolutely deserve to be in charge around here. I mean, I’ll go too, if you want, but I’m just putting it out there that I’d also be delighted to try to learn from and live in a society run by potentially actually wise elders instead of greedy old white men. Maybe someday we’ll get to give it a try.
Dances with wolves me bro, I’ll help.
What is crazy is this was actually a huge problem for frontier settlements. Tonnes of people would meet the indigenous population, be exposed to their society, learn enough of their language to communicate, and then go “fuck this” to all the European culture and just move in with the locals. They brought whatever skills they had including metalworking and so on and joined up and for the most part it went really really well for them, until the westerners came and killed everyone. Behind The Bastards had a great episode a few years ago about it, through the lens of one particular bastard, and yeah, faced with a culture where individuals were not exploited for every last shilling of value to the shareholders people wanted out.
Yo same.
A full on economic embargo on the US would be a nice push, but the EU is too damn dependent (and swerving to the right as of late).