“Lost words are like a trail of bread crumbs leading the way back to some of the things capitalism has stolen from us!…
there are incredibly few jobs today that complete a productive process, as every process has been subdivided into a thousand different steps to complete a finished product…
In most places these days, you couldn’t find the infrastructure to produce a single finished product, even if you had plenty of raw materials on hand!…
useful skills are stolen from us and we even lose the memory that those skills once existed. Losing the vocabulary to talk about those skills is an integral part of that loss…
intentional extermination of entire Indigenous languages rich with vocabulary and grammar that express a completely different relationship with the land and the water and our other (nonhuman) relations all make it easier for us to be suckered by the false promises of liberalism and democracy or of authoritarian communism. They represent an adherence to false histories that turn us into our own worst enemies.“