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Stegiel's avatar

I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped out.

Aime Cesaire

Aimé Césaire describes the brutal impact of colonialism on both the colonizer and colonized, exposing the contradictions and hypocrisy implicit in western notions of “progress” and “civilization” upon encountering the “savage”, “uncultured,” or “primitive.” Here, Césaire suggests “the relationship between consciousness and reality are extremely complex… It is equally necessary to decolonize our minds, our inner life, at the same time that we decolonize society.”

In, "The Camp of the Saints" by Jean Raspail, the old world that colonized is drowning “Day by day, month by month, doubt by doubt, law and order became fascism; education, constraint; work, alienation; revolution, mere sport; leisure, a privilege of class; marijuana, a harmless weed; family, a stifling hothouse; affluence, oppression; success, a social disease; sex, an innocent pastime; youth, a permanent tribunal; maturity, the new senility; discipline, an attack on personality; Christianity... and the West... and white skin...”

“Can a door protect a world that has lived too long?”

― Jean Raspail

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jacquelyn sauriol's avatar

remember when some groups set up teeter totters

that straddled the border? That was like 5 years ago now...

long term oppps....

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