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dysfunctmonk

Mon Jan-22-01 10:59 PM

  
62. "To add to what Solarus and utamaroho said..."
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the Kemetic (not "Egyptian") people practiced agriculture, but it was not in the sense that westerners do. First of all, there was a balanced exchange with the land. It was give and recieve, unlike western commercial farms which rape the land and exploit it until its nutrients are used up. There was also the use of hanging gardens now called "hydroponics". In this type of system land isn't even used to grow plants and more people can be fed. We as Afrikans did not see the land as a tool to be used and abused. We understand that we are spiritually connected with the land just as we are with each other. Euro-centric thought has discounted the idea of spirit. As a matter of fact, during the early stages of European development they were exposed to hostile environmental factors. This helped to form a distorted world-view, and then with Plato's direction (along with other Greek philosophers) it solidified into the twisted world-view that it is today. A world-view which is hostile and must not only discount anything different from it, but it must also impose itself on those that are not like it. Imperialism is in its cultural essence because the western mind is trained to dichotomize everything. This means to seperate things such as "logic" and "emotion", and once these things are seperated they are not looked at as necessary counterparts to a whole but as two opposing objects. In this opposition one must overcome the other. This already sets the mind in the mode of domination and supremacy, and this permeates all of western cultural thought. This is why western culture has to be done away with because it promotes an irreconcilable need to dominate people and things around you, and so it is dangerous for everyone when that way of thought is allowed to prevail.


"If our education is not about gaining real power, we are being miseducated and misled and we will die 'educated' and misled."
-Amos Wilson, The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness


  

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revolution: what are you fightin' for? [View all] , Beyond_Levels, Thu Jan-18-01 12:06 PM
 
Subject Author Message Date ID
RE: revolution: what are you fightin' for?
utamaroho
Jan 18th 2001
1
Wow...
Jan 18th 2001
3
RE: Wow...
utamaroho
Jan 18th 2001
6
      All I can say is...
Jan 18th 2001
7
           RE: All I can say is...
utamaroho
Jan 18th 2001
11
                Let's start with the obvious...
Jan 18th 2001
15
                     This is more than a little harsh...
Jan 18th 2001
16
                     RE: This is more than a little harsh...
utamaroho
Jan 18th 2001
18
                          Yup.
Jan 18th 2001
22
                               what in tha...
Jan 18th 2001
29
                                    Matrix...
Jan 18th 2001
30
                                         whoa
Jan 19th 2001
31
                                              Why?
Jan 19th 2001
41
                     RE: Let's start with the obvious...
utamaroho
Jan 18th 2001
17
                          Never mind...
Jan 18th 2001
23
                          You're Terrible
Marinera
Jan 22nd 2001
59
                               Don't bother...
Jan 22nd 2001
61
                          I can't believe..........
insomnia
Jan 23rd 2001
63
RE: revolution: what are you fightin' for?
Beyond_Levels
Jan 18th 2001
4
RE: revolution: what are you fightin' for?
utamaroho
Jan 18th 2001
10
RE: revolution: what are you fightin' for?
yinka
Jan 19th 2001
36
I AGREE
apexNYC
Jan 19th 2001
37
RE: revolution: what are you fightin' for?
derby
Jan 19th 2001
39
not quite
yinka
Jan 19th 2001
40
i asked b/c
Beyond_Levels
Jan 19th 2001
42
what would u replace it with?
yoshiaki
Jan 20th 2001
53
Truth
KoalaLove
Jan 18th 2001
2
Yeah...
Jan 18th 2001
5
fighting for
audiovisuals
Jan 18th 2001
8
There it is...n/m
Jan 18th 2001
9
RE: fighting for
utamaroho
Jan 18th 2001
12
And there is nothing wrong
Jan 19th 2001
33
RE: fighting for
Phraktal
Jan 18th 2001
13
RE: fighting for
utamaroho
Jan 18th 2001
14
RE: fighting for
Phraktal
Jan 18th 2001
19
      RE: fighting for
utamaroho
Jan 18th 2001
20
      no, no, no
apexNYC
Jan 18th 2001
21
           Westerner does not equal white.
Jan 18th 2001
24
           RE: Westerner does not equal white.
apexNYC
Jan 18th 2001
27
                RE: Westerner does not equal white.
utamaroho
Jan 18th 2001
28
                     RE: Westerner does not equal white.
apexNYC
Jan 19th 2001
34
                          RE: Westerner does not equal white.
utamaroho
Jan 19th 2001
43
                               RE: Westerner does not equal white.
apexNYC
Jan 19th 2001
47
                                    Do you need help coming out?
Jan 20th 2001
50
                                    RE: Westerner does not equal white.
utamaroho
Jan 21st 2001
55
                                   
           RE: no, no, no
utamaroho
Jan 18th 2001
26
                RE: no, no, no
apexNYC
Jan 19th 2001
35
      not looking to be provided for
audiovisuals
Jan 22nd 2001
58
zackly
audiovisuals
Jan 22nd 2001
56
Absolutely
Marinera
Jan 22nd 2001
60
      good question
audiovisuals
Jan 23rd 2001
66
Couldn't resist...
Jan 18th 2001
25
God, Bless the Child
Jan 19th 2001
32
its obvious
Jan 19th 2001
38
      who was this remark...
Beyond_Levels
Jan 19th 2001
44
      why is that?
apexNYC
Jan 19th 2001
45
      RE: why is that?
utamaroho
Jan 19th 2001
46
           RE: why is that?
apexNYC
Jan 19th 2001
48
                Misunderstanding
Jan 20th 2001
49
                     RE: Misunderstanding
booby_trap_the_sniper
Jan 20th 2001
51
                          RE: Misunderstanding
utamaroho
Jan 20th 2001
54
      I don't get it
Jan 22nd 2001
57
western civilizations
booby_trap_the_sniper
Jan 20th 2001
52
Power doesn't equal problems
dysfunctmonk
Jan 23rd 2001
64
Fight 4 di yoots!
Jan 23rd 2001
65
what am I fighting for?
Jan 30th 2001
67
plagues of ignorance
lusciousDivya
Jan 31st 2001
68

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