Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
This is what happens when worlds collide and then mingle over time. Living cultures and languages evolve and transform. Thought experiment: people still say ‘Pick up!’ when calling a busy person’s mobile, even though nobody really uses landlines that require picking up anymore. What might future evolutions of that utterance involve? Maybe one day,
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why it isn’t as famous as Stonehenge. I place my hand on one of the rocks and there is a deep duum that rises through it from the ground, reverberating up through my shoulder and down into my gut, and I think I just got the answer to my question.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
each person is bound within complex patterns of relatedness and communal obligation.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
any attempt to control the system from a fixed viewpoint outside is a misaligned intervention that will fail.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
I was worried about my academic knowledge overtaking my cultural knowledge. I needed to produce something in my own way first that was a greater work than a thesis.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Oldman Juma says all this has happened over and over again and will continue to happen as the universe breathes in and out.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
But it is strangely liberating to realise your true status as a single node in a cooperative network. There is honour to be found in this role, and a certain dignified agency. You won’t be swallowed up by a hive mind or lose your individuality—you will retain your autonomy while simultaneously being profoundly interdependent and connected. In fact,
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How do animals know migration routes they have never individually experienced before? How does a woman intuitively recover a weaving technique that disappeared over a century ago? How do ideas and solutions appear to us in our sleep?
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
The whole is intelligent, and each part carries the inherent intelligence of the entire system. Knowledge is therefore a living thing that is patterned within every person and being and object and phenomenon within creation.