| no one alive today
bears any responsibility
for what went on during the
european conquest of the americas.
and place the'blame' where it really belongs,
not on 'americans'
but on the people who actually came here
who were european for the most part.
disliking and despising
is just around the corner
from hating,
we're just talking shades of the same dark color.
what's the real point behind
denouncing the actions of men long dead ?
if not to put guilt and blame on the living ?
why should an american youth in chicago today
feel rotten because of things
some english or french or spanish colonialists
did centuries ago ?
and the indians weren't interested in
'homeostasis',
they were doing their best to grow in a very tough world.
if they had invented gunpowder and sailing ships
they'd have done the same thing to the euros
had they gotten a chance.
no noble savage, just ordinary people barely surviving living off the lands as hunter-gatherers, or fishermen, or herdsmen,
a few even tilled the land.
but that was no conscious choice,
no informed decision to seek a
life of balance with nature,
that's just a bunch of bolgna,
the myth that's been created.
the reality is far more brutal and real,
they lived limited by technology
not by wisdom.
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