When We Realize The Degree

The Stories We Are Told Shape The Way We See The World, Which Shapes The Way We Experience The World.

If Your Homeland Were Invaded By Aliens Who Cut Down The Forests, Poisoned The Water And Air And Contaminated The Food Supply, Would You Resist?

So Many Indigenous People Have Said To Me That The Fundamental Difference Between Western And Indigenous Ways Of Being Is That Even The Most Open-minded Westerners Generally View Listening To The Natural World As A Metaphor, As Opposed To The Way The World Really Is. Trees And Rocks And Rivers Really Do Have Things To Say To Us.

Have You Ever Felt Love? Did You Need Scientific Proof Of This? How Would You Have Definitively And Scientifically Proved Your Love Existed? If You Could Not Prove It, Would That Mean Your Love Didn't Exist? What Would You Trust: Your Own Feelings, Or Science?

Those In Power Have Made It So We Have To Pay Simply To Exist On The Planet. We Have To Pay For A Place To Sleep, And We Have To Pay For Food. If We Don't, People With Guns Come And Force Us To Pay. That's Violent.