Comment 43594

By BobInnes (registered) - website | Posted July 17, 2010 at 16:23:53

Undustrial, i'd like to encourage you to imagine what you'd do with the native situation to solve whatever you see as the problem. For the moment, ignore all rules/realities, what would you do as benevolent dictator?

Why is assimilation no good, other than some may not desire it? Is there an inherent bad in moving toward a common mind? What if we urban non-natives all of a sudden saw the benefits you speak of and wanted to assimilate in the other direction, toward a native worldview? JR Saul thinks we already have, to a degree.

Native culture has many merits but how can it adapt to modernity/automation/capitalist society (disregarding its flaws for the moment)?

Slodrive's solution, giving natives control of resources and/or paying them lease payments in lieu, doesn't solve the problem as much as just shifting the source of funding. Most people, to live a healthy life have to contribute in the form of work or creation of some sort. The question is how can the natives achieve that. Most have answered the question by living off-rez but that brings up the tax question. If natives use the infrastructure, shouldn't they help maintain it (by paying taxes)? Slodrive's guilt-answer is no answer, imo.

But the impasse Slodrive speaks of is real enough. But how do you negotiate with a so called nation which can change its mind and declare the rules are changed as the next generation comes along? How does a nation even exist within a nation?

Frogs, the pot is getting warm.

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