
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

Ninety per cent of the world’s wealth is owned by men. Most of the wages in the world go to men, while women do about two thirds of all the work, most of which is underpaid or not paid at all. Sustainability is an impossible dream in this unevenly gendered system, so it is worth revisiting the idea of liberating ourselves from it.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
We don’t die, we go back to Country, then come around again third time round. Creation time isn’t a ‘long, long ago’ event, because creation is still unfolding now, and will continue to if we know how to know it.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Every time you meet someone and establish your relationship to each other, you are bringing together multiple universes.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Everybody follows the pattern, even if they openly oppose the tenets of liberalism or the system of nationhood in general. The most roguish of nations still must maintain their status as a nation, and to do so they must follow the blueprint. No matter where you go in the world, you will recognise elements from this template—if you chance upon a
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No matter how hard you may try to separate yourself from reality, there are always observer effects as the reality shifts in relation to your viewpoint. Scientists call this the uncertainty principle.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Cultural innovations occur in deep relationships between land, spirit and groups of people.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
pattern of logic, of being, of connectedness.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
But chaos in reality has a structure that produces innovation, and anarchy simply means ‘no boss’. Could it be possible to have structure without bosses?
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
All Law-breaking comes from that first evil thought, that original sin of placing yourself above the land or above other people.