absolutely adore this

very much based on Indigenous principles

@godjhaka7376

Жыл бұрын

But the white man don't give a damn about indigenous of Afrocentric world view. Their world view is kill, rape, lynch, destroy, dominate, ego, all for me. They don't understand sharing or that nature is meant for all. They want to own it privately. Why you think they easily conquered the native indigenous of turtle island so easily ?

Excellent video about what our oneness an dour connection with our environment and one another.

Absolutely love this

@mutantfaith508

14 күн бұрын

oh snap

Love this!

YAAAASSSS!!!!!

watch.interchain.live to see how we are collaborating to inform, educate, and mobilize for real change in our systems to bring about real solutions.

...but do the ants at the bottom survive? I feel like the rich ants are on top, the poor ants at the bottom. The first ants, who begin their collaboration early & selflessly, sacrifice themselves, and the benefit is transferred onto the later ants, who jumped on top. I think this ant-island-in-a-flood metaphor is accurate, but it should be used as a cautionary tale to help us make sure we don't do what ants do, not as a motivation.

@Gwentern

2 жыл бұрын

my interpretation of it was that the bottom layer of ants are those who have partaken the emergent groups yet ended up making no apparent change or being forgotten..but they still matter (like fractals..small changes?). if their aim was not to chase recognition but to make changes with self agency, i am not in a position to bear sympathy for them. rich ants, imo, won't even be part of this group because they would have private boats and only save themselves..lol

@justinehecht1197

9 ай бұрын

I think that point has more to do with how we support each other so that we survive. By the ants working together, they are able to ensure the continuation of their little ant society. The same goes for human society, if we work together, rely on one another, rather than on the government or other hierirachal power structures, we can help each other survive too.

@Magic_beans_

5 ай бұрын

The underwater ants can survive for a while (not sure about fire ants, but other species can survive up to two weeks in water). There are two main adaptations that allow this. First, ants breathe through vents (spiracles) in their abdomens, and when the water hits they can close the vents and keep air trapped against their bodies (called a plastron layer). Second, they can go into a sort of hibernation to extend that oxygen supply for days. They don’t need to move, they’re just holding onto a neighboring ant, so they shut everything else down. But I think the bigger point of this ant example is that nobody gives the order to build a raft or appoints a top and bottom layer. The ants just have a couple basic rules that allow the raft to spontaneously assemble, for example: - Don’t go in the water if you can avoid it - If you do go in the water, bite down on your neighbor like your life depends on it. - If you’re above water, look for a way out. - Unless the water’s tossing you around in which case hunker down. Those and a couple other rules, most of them instinctive enough for any individual, help the colony survive where a single ant probably wouldn’t. [I should also mention that this is almost exactly how Adam Smith describes the “invisible hand” of the free market: each person acting in their own self-interest would create a system which allocates resources to their best use and raises our collective standard of living. How well it’s done that, let’s just say individual experiences vary.]

@ericasiskind7823

5 ай бұрын

@@Magic_beans_ Thanks for this explanation. It sounds like they'd all survive if it was a quick event, but the longer the raft is needed, the more ants would run out of oxygen and just become a hollow floating shell. Funny how the metaphor fits free market capitalism AND anarchic collaboration. If the ants had social democracy available to them I wonder if they'd vote to build a raft of dry leaves instead so they all survive instead of half of them turning into flotation devices for the other half. That would make it a good metaphor for using the community resources to support everyone so nobody has to sacrifice themselves in a fatalistic lack of planning. We could favor long-term collaborative problem solving over emergency response. Because most of our problems aren't unexpected flash floods. Most of them are structural or systemic, based on predictable cycles and universal needs. Right?

@dillonpendleton

28 күн бұрын

Not religious, but John 15:13 paints this fairly clearly. “Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.”

Transformative justice has taken place in tribal societies throughout the past... it is not new to our species. Ex. Ubuntu tribe in South Africa.