I've experienced something like that in the very remotest of northern communities in which people still apologized to the animals they had to kill in order to stay alive themselves. The people were still strongly tied into the ecosphere and they knew it. However, things were changing. Kids learned our view of the world at school, and when they had finished their primary grades they were shipped out to Yellowknife or Inuvik to do high school. Elders were still respected, but as icons more than as sources of ancient wisdom bearing on the ecosystem.
In my last visit to one of those communities, about five years ago, I stayed with a local family. I had work to do but found it difficult because the TV was blaring for much of the day. The community was close to a national park that our government had created out of the community's ancient hunting lands, and tourism was expected to become a growing source of income. The people still knew the land, but they expected to increasingly use it as tour guides and not as harvesters. Even if it was all inevitable, I found it a little sad. Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gail Stewart" <[email protected]> To: "RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION,EDUCATION" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 6:28 AM Subject: Re: [Futurework] The Way of Right Relationship > > (Incidently but not irrelevantly, has anybody on this list ever > experienced > themselves as active participant in the ecosphere, the thin skin of this > spinning planet, among all its living inhabitants? Might you be willing to > share something of that experience?) > > Regards, > > Gail > > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
