From my email correspondence: Dear Mariel, It is not lunacy. This professor understands what the dominant culture is. The dominant culture that you and I are part of has a linear sense of time, but indigenous cultures who often can communicate with ancestors right now in the present, or see into the future (in the present) don’t have a linear sense of time. Taken out of context, this person’s profound understanding seems crazy. I was on an aboriginal reserve for 5 months. Those people do not experience our reality, and we don’t experience theirs. This person is criticizing the dominant culture, and the dominant culture marginalizes, discounts, and smears any criticism. If the dominant culture produces most books, then ‘other view’ books, other reports on reality, over time, will not have shelf space, and the cultural hegemony keeps accelerating. This professor (below link) is noticing something you are old enough to notice, that the cultural and religious diversity of books we saw in the 70’s are out of print and gone, replaced by the chatter of dominant culture thought which is increasingly technocratic, new age, and all inclusive. (However, there is also analysis of monoculture that didn’t exist 40 years ago.) Most people talk about the one future and the one humanity, which isn’t true. If everyone who uses electricity dropped dead, the world would still have hundreds of millions of people and the many branches of remaining humans would have a non polluting future with…
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