A Natural Occurrence, 2005.

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A Natural Occurrence, 2005.
A Natural Occurrence, 2005.

"Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men, we didn't have any kind of prison. Because of this, we had no delinquents. Without a prison, there can be no delinquents. We had no locks nor keys and therefore among us there were no thieves. When someone was so poor that he couldn't afford a horse, a tent or a blanket, he would, in that case, receive it all as a gift. We were too uncivilized to give great importance to private property. We didn't know any kind of money and consequently, the value of a human being was not determined by his wealth. We had no written laws laid down, no lawyers, no politicians, therefore we were not able to cheat and swindle one another. We were really in bad shape before the white men arrived and I don't know how to explain how we were able to manage without these fundamental things that (so they tell us) are so necessary for a civilized society."
-John (Fire) Lame Deer, Sioux Lakota - 1903-1976.



"No, I’m not an American. I’m one of the 22 million black people who are the victims of Americanism. One of the 22 million black people who are the victims of democracy, nothing but disguised hypocrisy. So, I’m not standing here speaking to you as an American, or a patriot, or a flag-saluter, or a flag-waver—no, not I. I’m speaking as a victim of this American system. And I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare."
-Malcolm X, The Ballot or the Bullet, April 03, 1964.



"The oppressed must see examples of the vulnerability of the oppressor so that contrary conviction can begin to grow within them. Until this occurs, they will continue disheartened, fearful, and beaten. As long as the oppressed remain unaware of the causes of their condition, they fatalistically accept their exploitation."
-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1970, page 64.



"We go through life believing we are experiencing the world when actually our experiences are confined within entirely human conceptions...Our environment itself is the manifestation of the mental processes of other humans...Our environment itself becomes editor, filter and medium between ourselves and an alternative non-human, unedited organic planetary reality...
Living within artifical reconstructed arbitrary environments that are strictly the products of human conception, we have no way to be sure that we know what is true and what is not. We have lost context and perspective."
-Jerry Mander, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, 1978, page 67.



"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
-Attributed to Lily Tomlin by Donald Kanter and Philip Mirvis in The Cynical Americans, 1989, page 118.



“As a group, authentic nature-based people are not neurotic, repressed, or burdened by psychopathology as we know it; rather, they tend to be integrated in thought, feeling, and spirit. Most pointedly, nature-based people manifest the very qualities that contemporary psychotherapy, the recovery movement, and spiritual practices continually aim for: a visible sense of inner peace, unselfconscious humility, an urge to communal cooperation, and heartfelt appreciation for the world around them.”
–Chellis Glendinning, My Name Is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization, 1994, page 19.



"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
-Jiddu Krishnamurti



 


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