What (really) Remains?
WHAT (really) REMAINS? … “Indigenous peoples, those with distinctive historical ties to a particular territory, and therefore harness deep knowledge about humanity’s intrinsic relationship with nature: What remains of them and their traditional ways of life? Is what endures merely their inherent beauty?
While lovely photographs that depict their life can be presented, this is, however, in many ways a façade. There exists another dimension in which everything may appear to be fine, but cultures have been shredded…fragmented…burned by global economics and greed — development, this supposed progress!
At least, we still can witness facets of traditional culture, in its ongoing stages of disintegration. This questions the direction of humanity overall.
Fundamentally different ways of life, these paradigms that nowadays define the existence of human beings, interact with each other as humanity overall relentlessly continues with this attempt to stitch together the natural with the synthetic. People do still have their voices, and some good may even be forthcoming with modernity, but there’s malice amidst this grace.
Stitches and scars remain from nails hammered into the coffins that contain precious cultural jewels, that proven mastery of how to survive on Planet Earth. While all of this may seem dismal, there is yet hope; something eternal for us remains.
This is life — the natural roots that all living beings share, an inherent need for community connection. Perhaps, this is the beauty that remains…”