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Blood Memory and Spiritual Alchemy
Total domination does not allow freedom of initiative in any area of life, it cannot allow an activity that is not entirely predictable. This is why totalitarian regimes invariably replace talented people, regardless of their sympathies, with nerds and idiots whose lack of intelligence and creativity still offers the best guarantee of security.
— Hannah Arendt — The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
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As has been said, so many people can more readily imagine the end of the world before the end of capitalism. Capitalist realism thus designates an unbearable paralysis in an horrifying system that we can’t imagine getting beyond.
As Indigenous peoples, living already in a post apocalyptic reality, our blood memory tells us there are other ways to live on this earth in an economy of abundance that doesn’t destroy that which we love and are intimately and actively in a mutually reciprocal relationship with.
We have brilliant visionary relatives who are using their bright minds to cultivate new structures and cooperatives , exploring the new face of Indigenous economics that is rooted in relationship, kinship, mutual reciprocity and the inherent abundance of this good Earth that is our Mother; blending the old Indigenous ancestral ways with new modern tools. Indigenous peoples the world…
