Hope4
The sun is about to go behind the hill and I want as much of the day’s remaining sun as possible but first some writing …
Indigenous wisdom and introspection — for me these are related, I’ll explain.
I’m not an Indigenous person, I am one of the colonising group. We came to Aotearoa New Zealand in 1966 as “ten pound Poms”. My dad was a ‘sparkie’ — an electrician — and Aotearoa NZ needed more of those then.
As a non-Indigenous person, my views on Indigenous worlds are subsidiary to those of Indigenous folks — and are open to correction by them.
In my view, Indigenous wisdom is a source of hope for several reasons:
As Einstein is believed to have said, paraphrased: “we can’t solve a problem with the same thinking that created it”.
Western thinking, and in many cases colonial thinking have created much of the economic, political and social systems that are protected and bolstered by capitalist exchanges.
This thinking has provided are a range of benefits, and I hope humans can continue to build on these.
But this thinking has created a phase of imminent risk whether through climate change, non-democratic technologies and economies, or political suppression of equality.
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