Indigenous people have major protests going on out west because of desecration of sacred sites such as Bear Butte, with a biker bar/rally close by the mountain. No doubt that this is a horrible thing. However, I wish that all they were doing is building a biker bar near our sacred mountains in the East. The great grand father mountain in the video below was one of the oldest mountains on Mother Earth. Instead of rowdy music and beer drinking next door, these sacred mountains are being completely demolished for coal. It is called mountain top removal and it is a horrible rape of mother earth and our sacred mountains. There is no such thing as “clean coal’. It is about as clean as raping a baby. Please see video:

461 Murdered Mountains for Coal:

Manifest destiny says that the authoritarian system killing machine, the beast, will not stop until every indigenous person, animal, tree, river, plant, mountain, valley is domesticated, subdued, flatted, dammed-up, controlled, bulldozed, raped, abused, used-up and artificially refined , re-created and re-configured as part of the Matrix. The once grand sacred great grandfather mountain is going to make a lovely domesticated flat airport, housing development, strip mall or convention center, university or hospital where we will can have great time dinning, shopping, being sophisticated or even protesting global warming and not even realizing the desecration upon which we stand. Nearly all of us have been sucked into supporting the killing machine. We live and get our needs met though this killing machine. Our electricity, our food, our homes, our wealth, our heat, our travel, our jobs, our money all comes from this killing machine. Every time we turn on a light, every time we take a shower, every time send an email, every time we get in our car we help the killing machine to devour another piece of the indigenous world. We help the beast grow stronger even as we fight against it.

And there is no difference between the domestication of the indigenous great grand father mountain and the domestication of indigenous Native Americans from the Amazon, forced North by policies like NAFTA, forced into a factory in Prince William County VA; forced to forget his native tongue and to learn Spanish and English; forced to think the Euro-American way; forced to seek the American dream and wave the flag; forced to be labeled falsely as Hispanic or Latino; forced to be ashamed of being indigenous because like the mountain, indigenous is ugly, crude, non-refined, lazy, non-productive, stupid; forced to go to war and kill other brown people and steal their wealth.

At this point we are all just as much a part of the war against indigenous world as Columbus, Custer, Hitler and George Bush, even those of us fighting against it. We have become part of the Matrix supplying it with the energy it needs to live. What we see as our modern sophisticated world, is not modern it is an erroneous path that humanity has taken which will eventually kill us all--democracy, companies, jobs, socialism, capitalism, communism, employment, the nuclear family, cities, money, analysis, universities, cars, airplanes. We must see that the only way out of the Matrix, is to stop feeding it, supplying it with the energy and power to continue devouring the Indigenous world.

We must shift to a completely different way of living where we do not get our living needs met via the “beast”. We can protest and fight for indigenous rights and the environment and for peace and this is good, but as long as we get our living need met via the beast, Wal-mart, GM, governments, Lowes, power companies, jobs, politicians, grocery stores, IBM, bureaucracies, we feed the beast and make it stronger and we help to kill the indigenous world and spread violence and oppression and defeat what we say we desire. This is why we are promoting networks of tribal communities where we live and work in these communities and get our needs met through networks of sustainable tribal communities, operating in harmony with Mother Earth, while we fight against borders, uranium, coal, war, etc. Our fights must be in alignment with what we support, nurture and grow. While we resist the beast we must withdrawing our support from the beast—we must stop feeding the beast. At the same time we must put our support into systems that feed, nurture and grow the re-emerging indigenous world. When enough people are getting their needs met sustainably, via the tribal system, the beast dies with no fight.

This is not anarchy, it is not intentional communities, it is not New Age, it is not communes, it is not communitarianism. It is tribalism—the system of social order that sustained humanity for tens of thousands of years—the vast majority of human history. These new names and new attempts to recreate tribalism disrespect all of our ancestors—since all peoples on Mother Earth lived in tribalism for most of human history. Let’s not arrogantly seek to create some new system of human cooperation, while ignoring our ancestors contributions. By doing so we insult and disrespect our ancestors because we are not acknowledging nor giving thanks: 1) To what our ancestors created and sustained for tens of thousands of years, and passed to us, and 2) For their wisdom and their vision and all that they sacrificed to create for us. By ignoring what they created and arrogantly trying to create this system anew with our ego based brains and not our remembering hearts, we desecrate our ancestor’s work, lives and memories. We must remember that the system of tribalism that our ancestors developed is the most liberating, most abundant and most successful system of human social order that has ever existed. We should not try and modernize the terminology, nor soften it or make it less primitive sounding because this merely confuses people regarding where we must go and it disrespects our ancestors. We don’t have to create anything new—we don’t need any new fancy names. All we have to do is ask the ancestors how to find our way back home. Everything we need to know has already been done—the knowledge is already there waiting for us to ask—with respect and reverence.