Never forget that there were many parts of our old land-based cultures that European colonialism needed to violently suppress in order to replace them with the monoculture of modern civilisation, and create the new 'normal' we still inhabit. Old cultures across the European landmass included.
In these old ways we find the most radical possibilities of decolonization: those things which are profoundly life-giving while being completely intolerable to the colonial cosmology. In turn, they also make modernity intolerable to us. Understanding once again the fullness of what life can be, we can become dauntless defenders of the land instead of settling for hollow 'comforts' that mire us in meaninglessness and keep us structurally dependent on genocides and ecocides.
Don't accept the mediocrity of modern life: the crumbs of history, while Earth is wasted away to produce them.
Don't settle for false solutions.
Don't seek quick fixes. There are none.
Don't believe the state or industry ever have the land's interests in mind - they care only for profitable cataclysm.
Fuck their 'environmental impact assessments' and bureaucratic sleights of hand. That is not how we get free.
The land calls us back, and needs us to jump off this ship that's steering us into oblivion - and to burn its rotten timbers for warmth as we (re)build new-old worlds.
Tradition can be revolutionary. Do not cede it to fascists and conservatives.
We will burn colonial empires to the ground once and for all with an inferno stoked from the embers of fires that once warmed and nourished our ancestors.
Jimmy- I agree with you in that quick fixes don't really exist. Especially on all these things you mentioned. Great insights. Hope you're well this week? Cheers, -Thalia