The White Man Has Lost His Tribe
When people look around at the appalling state of the world today they look for someone to point the finger at. All too often the finger is pointed as the West. America, Europe, capitalism, free markets.
It is true to some degree. The greatest extent of the damage being done to the world is being done by the West. There is no excuse for these actions. But it is possible to understand why.
Why do we pollute the skies and the seas? Why do we destroy the rainforest?
Why do we farm the land so intensively to the point where we need petro-chemicals to produce anything? Why have we wiped out almost all of the indigenous cultures in the New World and forced the remainder to flee into the remotest areas of the jungle?
Simply put the white man does not know any other way.
Tribal cultures know their roots. Their languages, their customs, their spirituality and their stories go back thousands of years. They have a history, they have a purpose and they know how to live on Earth.
The modern day West has lost all of this. There once was a time in Europe where humans lived in a way that worked. They had the wisdom and support of a tribe. They had rituals, customs, history and spirituality. They weren't saints and their lifestyle wasn't perfect and idyllic. But it worked. They lived according to the law that governs the biological community, they treated the Earth with respect and lived as though they belonged.
The Great Forgetting Of Europe
But all that knowledge was forgotten, destroyed, rooted out. The tribes of Europe were dominated by another, just as Europeans in the past few hundred years have dominated the Native Americans, the Australian Aborigines, the New Zealand Maori and the indigenous peoples of Polynesia and Melanesia.
It was the pre-Christian Romans, Julius Caesar and his crew, who began to destroy the ancient ways of the Europeans.
The final nail in the coffin was the Holy Roman Empire. Its tentacles reached across Europe and shredded the last remnants of the old cultures.
Spirituality was taken away from the Earth, away from life itself and locked up in a wooden building with a cross on the door.
The people who belonged to these cultures were either killed or absorbed into the culture of their annihilators. The old world-view of man belonging to the Earth was gone. It was replaced with the idea that the world belonged to man. It was a resource divinely created to serve man's purpose. It was our destiny to subdue and control it.
Nobody remembered the old ways. Nobody thought twice that dominating the Earth was the way man was supposed to live. Every possible inch of arable land should be put to the plough. Any heathen, pagan, primitive superstitious culture in the way of that should be exterminated. What we did to the indigenous cultures of the New World happened to us. We lost our roots. The dominated turned into the dominators.
The Birth Of Civilization Is The Root
The story goes back further than the Roman Empire. The origins of the culture of maximum harm, the dominator culture can be found in the Middle East, in present day Iraq. The European dominators can be traced back to Egypt and Persia, to Babylon and Sumer, right back to the beginning of civilization.
People have no roots, no tribe, no elders, no culture.
So the mess we are making of the world today is a result of the people in power having forgotten how to live properly. We have forgotten what is sacred.
Our culture befouls the Earth in the name of progress while the people wonder in disbelief. Something isn't right they feel, but they have never known anything other way. How else to make a living other than within our culture?
We are disconnected from each other and disconnected from the Earth. People are at a loss spiritually. They have no roots, no tribe, no elders, no culture. They are unsatisfied, unfulfilled and at a loss as what to do. They are drawn in by born again Christianity, Buddhism, paganism and self-help. Anything that promises something better than what we have. Anything to numb the pain and give life some meaning.
What we need is a better way of making a living. The white man needs a tribe. He needs a sense of belonging, a collective way of making a living where he is more than just an economic unit. He needs wisdom and spirituality, but not from some far off vengeful God, rather he needs the divine here in the present in his everyday life.
This is not just for the white man, but for every group of people that have lost the old ways. African Americans who were shipped off to be slaves, they have forgotten. The Asian nations who persecute those who still live the traditional ways, they have forgotten. And all of the groups who maintain a link to the old ways through name but not by action. They too must remember.
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