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In reply to the discussion: We should have been colonizing the solar system by now. [View all]tama
(9,137 posts)None so what ever. But what does the fact of 'idolizing' ('making into image') being a Greek word speak of and where from? Especially after painting an colorful image of ancient Greeks in the previous sentence?
I use and expose Greek because I can do it quite well, that was my main subject in University and I made a career as translator from Greek to Finnish. Because my roots are those of non-European indigenous people who like so many others have been colonized and "civilized" by Europeans. "Europe" is also a Greek word and I have given much of this life to a study of Greek roots of European civilization that has colonized my people. As I have also studied the even deeper roots of our indigenous language and culture. To gain a fuller comprehension of who I am and where I come from. I cannot speak my language to you so that you would understand, but I can use and show the Greek roots of your language and culture when I speak with you, and by that route perhaps show you and tell you something about our people.
What you call "erudition" was Internet poetry and collective performance art, random thoughts collected around the theme and idea of repetitive stutter. The civilized word for which is 'alliteration' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliteration). That is how our language and poetry sings and remembers our songs and tales and relations, by harmonious beginnings of the words that we put together into incantations. Being who we are, we like to alliterate. Other peoples who see and encounter matters other way around like to rhyme, to hear their words end up with the same sound.
Alliteration reminds me now that we all have the same beginning and origin, from which we can take many different paths. For us all paths mean 'knowing', we make distinction between path and knowing. We have our paths and so do Europeans, who have taken the path of making us and many others follow their path, to rhyme with Europeans. We don't know the meaning of all of this, and that is not our purpose. But having seen and experienced what Europeans have done to our people and so many other nations, we alliterate, repeat and stutter our point of view, what was said in the beginning of this pow-wow, that if you want to sail the sky in iron ships, you don't take that path just to rhyme what you have done to us and this planet, but remember our common origin and travel new paths and give us and other children of Earth freedom to follow our own paths.