how quickly we have forgotten the disease the white people brought with them to the New World and how it destroyed indigenous cultures with lower immunity.
Yes, I have been thinking of this alot as people debate about 'what is happening' in indigenous Australia and 'the narrative'. Very easy to talk about from a distance, listening to one side of many faceted story. I keep thinking that we have no right to add, embellish or spout a denial of a 'narrative' without being part of it ourselves. Instead, we have other 'narratives' that talk about 'camps' over 'quarantine facilities' and 'people being dragged off against their will' over 'willingly chosing to stop the spread of virus in vulnerable communities'. IN this day and age seems you have to be either/or, rather than nuanced. The anti narrative over the narrative, rather than realising it's all fucking narratives.
Reblogged - thankyou for your observations on the ground.
And thankyou for the humourous image of you muttering away to yourself. Delightful.
I confess to being a chronic mutterer and an absolute eyeroll PRO. 😆
It's just too easy to see the world through our own lens, to be either-or and to consider that "our narrative" must be "THE narrative" for everyone on the planet. The longer I live (and I just clocked 58) the more I see the world and this existence as some kind of weird 1970's mirrored disco ball, refracting and reflecting only part of what is real.
I'd love to read more about how Australian indigenous communities feel about Covid and infectious disease, and how they few "safety" measures.
The problem is that these days you dont know what, or who to believe!