Blending social history, of which he is a teacher at SUNY Buffalo, with an ecological perspective, Mohawk is able to draw the parallels among various cultures from the ancient Greeks to the Spanish conquerors to the Nazi Germans. Each of them essentially believed in a Utopian idealism in which certain people are destined for greatness and other people, and the environments in their way, are to be destroyed or ignored. This is now the philosophy underlying global capitalism and its institutions, and the reason why the world is in such trouble. Indigenous people understand that, and it is by connecting with their wisdom and their way of thinking that we can begin to ask some serious questions about where we are headings and at what costs. The full edited text of this lecture may be viewed or purchased in pamphlet form at http://www.smallisbeautiful.org/publications.html
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