You are mostly very coherent and substantive but this topic seems to have dragged you into a world of purple prose and emotional overload.
To take issue with one statement - Does one fall to one's knees and weep hot tears for the Indigenous, whose lives we bulldozed and paved over with asphalt just to build a ghostmind civilization where something like this could happen?
Who is WE? And what is indigenous? If you mean native peoples who were colonised I would simply point out that they too colonised, generally eradicating utterly any others they stumbled across as they colonised Australia, the Americas, the pacific, Africa, Asia etc.
As to building a ghostmind civilization, that is to deny the many positive aspects of our modern world which those deemed 'indigenous' also want and accept when offered. 'WE' spend billions every year trying to help people in less developed nations join our modern world and having lived in India and four African countries, as well as having spent time in remote communities in Australia and been exposed to 'native' communities in the Canada and US, I can assure you, they want what we have and why would they not?
For all the 'wrongs' inherent in our modern world it is foolish to dismiss in such cavalier fashion, those things which are not in the least 'ghostmind,' like safe water, efficient sanitation and hygiene, modern dentistry and surgery and a world where most developed nations strive to support and assist the vulnerable.
Beware painting with a broad brush of doom across our modern world for that leads to the destruction of the best along with the worst. I can assure you, for all of its faults, the modern world, the Western world remains a better place to live than do less developed nations. Particularly for females, children, the sick, disabled, poor and aged.
You are mostly very coherent and substantive but this topic seems to have dragged you into a world of purple prose and emotional overload.
To take issue with one statement - Does one fall to one's knees and weep hot tears for the Indigenous, whose lives we bulldozed and paved over with asphalt just to build a ghostmind civilization where something like this could happen?
Who is WE? And what is indigenous? If you mean native peoples who were colonised I would simply point out that they too colonised, generally eradicating utterly any others they stumbled across as they colonised Australia, the Americas, the pacific, Africa, Asia etc.
As to building a ghostmind civilization, that is to deny the many positive aspects of our modern world which those deemed 'indigenous' also want and accept when offered. 'WE' spend billions every year trying to help people in less developed nations join our modern world and having lived in India and four African countries, as well as having spent time in remote communities in Australia and been exposed to 'native' communities in the Canada and US, I can assure you, they want what we have and why would they not?
For all the 'wrongs' inherent in our modern world it is foolish to dismiss in such cavalier fashion, those things which are not in the least 'ghostmind,' like safe water, efficient sanitation and hygiene, modern dentistry and surgery and a world where most developed nations strive to support and assist the vulnerable.
Beware painting with a broad brush of doom across our modern world for that leads to the destruction of the best along with the worst. I can assure you, for all of its faults, the modern world, the Western world remains a better place to live than do less developed nations. Particularly for females, children, the sick, disabled, poor and aged.