[HN Gopher] Man of the Hole
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Man of the Hole
Author : thunderbong
Score : 80 points
Date : 2024-07-21 23:45 UTC (23 hours ago)
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| TaylorAlexander wrote:
| I remember trying to speak to my dad about the indigenous
| genocides committed by the American settlers and he said "that
| was a long time ago." And while much can be said of such a
| response, it's important to recognize that genocides of various
| groups and regions have occurred throughout the history of
| colonization, and before, for hundreds and for thousands of
| years, they have never stopped, and are ongoing to this day. Such
| things were not a long time ago. They were in the 1990's, they
| are today. They can only be ended by a recognition of and
| reconciliation with the force inside of us that drives us to
| ignore the needs of others so that we may have what they possess.
| We must recognize the humanity in all people.
|
| Carl Sagan said "It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri and
| the other nearby stars. It will be a species very like us, but
| with more of our strengths and fewer of our weaknesses, more
| confident, farseeing, capable, and prudent." [1]
|
| Maybe reconciling with these beasts of our nature, growing up and
| becoming more far seeing and confident, will be a part of that
| process.
|
| [1] https://haveabit.com/sagan/earth/
| sameoldtune wrote:
| My indigenous partner likes to make a quip: when someone
| mentions "the apocalypse" he asks "which apocalypse?"
| TaylorAlexander wrote:
| Reminds me of the book I read "The Culture of Make Believe"
| about how we pretend the world is different than it really
| is. It has a chapter called "Holocausts" and notes that in US
| culture we tend to think there was just one, but there have
| been many.
| poikroequ wrote:
| Yep, it's very important to recognize these things still happen
| today and are not remnants of the past. It was maybe a few ago
| that people were being sold into slavery somewhere in Africa.
| There's something like 30-40 million people trafficked
| worldwide, not sure how many are sex slaves or how many are
| children. I think we're all aware of what's happening in
| Ukraine and Palestine. For those of us living in the United
| States, it feels like we may be just months away from living in
| an fascist authorization dictatorship... of sorts.
|
| The problems of the past are very much still with us today.
| liendolucas wrote:
| If you are interested in this topic I highly recommend you to
| read "Las venas abiertas de America Latina" by Eduardo Galeano.
| All the atrocities committed by the spanish crown, and how they
| literally emptied America of its richness (in all senses). And
| yet to this very day we teach kids a fairy tale about how
| Colombus with its ships discovered America. And I don't think
| it was that long ago.
| TaylorAlexander wrote:
| Thank you for the recommendation! I also learned a lot about
| Columbus's atrocities and greed from this apparently well-
| researched YouTube video on the subject:
|
| https://youtu.be/OaJDc85h3ME
|
| He was truly an exceptionally brutal, evil, vile, and selfish
| person with no regard for the humanity of indigenous peoples.
| throwaway290 wrote:
| It's very sad as it sounds like some organization built up trust
| with him and that probably led him to being less cautious and
| killed by other people (because how he would tell the
| difference).
|
| To let be or to interfere I guess is always a lose lose choice...
| pingou wrote:
| It doesn't seem like he was killed, or at least the article
| doesn't mention it. He may have poisoned himself (if found
| ornamented)? Very sad anyway.
| throwaway290 wrote:
| Interesting, from the summary it sounded like gunmen were the
| issue
|
| > After surviving a further attack by armed ranchers in 2009,
| he was found dead in his home in August 2022.
|
| guess I made a wrong connection
| thih9 wrote:
| Do you have any reasons to suspect he was killed? The article
| says:
|
| > He was found "lying down in the hammock, and ornamented [with
| macaw feathers] as if waiting for death". There were no signs
| of violence or any other disturbance before his corpse had been
| discovered by FUNAI.
| lloydatkinson wrote:
| The Prime Directive in real life
| lloydatkinson wrote:
| Are there any theories at least about the purpose of the holes?
| There didn't seem to be many in the Reddit thread from earlier
| today
| azeemba wrote:
| The article mentioned possibly being animal trap, hiding
| yourself or spiritual.
|
| But honestly seem like just guesses.
| alsetmusic wrote:
| > He was buried in a traditional indigenous funeral at the same
| location where his body had been found in August. His burial
| place was desecrated by farmers shortly after, leading to renewed
| calls for permanent protection of the land where he and his
| people had dwelled.
|
| I just don't understand such pettiness. It's one of our worst
| traits.
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