… and no fair trying to distract us with her ethnicity and name.
‘All things will outlast us’: How the Indigenous concept of deep time helps us understand environmental destruction
Ann McGrath, Phys.org, August 19, 2020
The bushfire royal commission is examining ways Indigenous land and fire management could improve Australia’s resilience to national disasters. On the face of it, this offers an opportunity to embrace Indigenous ways of knowing.
But one traditional practice unlikely to be examined is the Indigenous concept of “deep time.” This concept offers all Australians a blueprint for understanding the land we live on.
In the words of University of Technology, Sydney, Visiting Research Fellow and Yuwaalaraay/Gamilaraay woman Frances Peters-Little:
“All things will outlast us, the land will change, and survive … Yes, the land will be different. But new things will come of it.”
If she thinks this sandwich will outlast me, she is sorely mistaken.
So… do non-indigenous Australians think that when they die, they’ll take the continent with them?
I like to introduce you to a new concept of mine… DEEEEEEEP PAAAAAAAIIIIN!
Is DEEEEEEEP PAAAAAAANN anything like Deep Dish pizza? ‘Cause I could go for that.
I got it slightly wrong. Damn my fading memory.
This man says it all…………… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHgJKrmbYfg
So…. Life goes on?
How profound!
Nobody’s ever philosophized like that before!
Life goes on
long after the thrill of living it is gone.
I’d give anything to hear Biden introduce a Yuwaalaraay/Gamilaraay woman.
On purpose, that is.
So land-based nuke testing is OK again? Sweet!