An Indigenist Perspective, Apocalypse No! By JUAN SANTOS

A Way of Death

Our current sense of self is no more sustainable than our current use of energy or technology. - Jensen

The most conscious elements of humanity got the deeper message--often at great personal cost: not only that the Bomb is evil, or that slavery, conquest and genocide are evil, but that this way we live is a way of death, in its entirety. Many understood that there must be an alternative, and they were by no means naïve or merely "idealistic" in demanding it "NOW." Our "way of life" has never worked on planet Earth and it never will--every empire in world history has collapsed, every empire overshot its "resources"--and this empire will be no different. We've had, as Daniel Quinn has put it, our Great Forgetting of our place on Earth.

Now, we urgently need a Great Remembering.



The City of God

"Hell is empty, all the devils are here." - William Shakespeare

Even as Israel launched its devastating assault on the Lebanese people, US neo-con darling Newt Gingrich called it the opening phase of World War lll, and over 3,000 members of a Christian fundamentalist sect hit Washington DC in a mass lobbying effort to urge that the US attack Iran. Their leader, the Rev. John Hagee, wants to bring on the apocalypse and believes the Book of Esther predicts that such an attack would set off the "End Times." His followers are not alone. In 2002 a Time/CNN poll held that 59 percent of US citizens believe that the prophecies of the Book of Revelations will come true. Other polls show that roughly 40 percent of people in the US believe that a sequence of events that presage the biblical "End Times" is now under way.



Turning Point

"The time of warnings, passive resistance and conformity is already passed. All of us are now confronted with an enormous challenge: SURVIVAL" - Council of Indigenous Elders and Priests of the Americas

"A growing body of western scientific evidence now suggests what Indigenous Peoples have expressed for a long time: life as we know it is in danger." - THE ALBUQUERQUE DECLARATION

We live in the most critical moment in the history of humanity on Earth, and at one of the three most critical junctures in the record of life on this Earth. Hiding under our desks will not--no matter what they told us as children--stop nuclear war. It will not stop Peak Oil, the collapse of the Green Revolution in agriculture, the collapse of civilization or of life on the planet. Neither will huddling behind the bible.

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