I consider myself a mediocre anthropologer on the human race. Having understood that the sociologic membrane wraps all the way around the globe a thousand times over, I can conceive of nothing in terms of race actually existing beyond the discourse and discourse of bodies (you see I'm also a post-structuralist too), thus in a sense even Waldo is a Black Jewish Mexican.
For what do bloodlines even entail as if it were poured from some holy cup? Now the Christians, and I presume Jewish worshippers and Abrahamism in general maintains the mythic delusion of Creationism and its metaphysics underpinning the Garden of Eden. I most certainly have this archetype embedded in my unconscious, though I also have penises embedded inside my ass, my pussy, and my tits. It's a potent image though nonetheless and not even for Abrahamic cultures; I am sure there is an earthly paradise represented in evertyhing from Tibetan Buddhism to Wicca to Hinduism to Taoism - maybe even Confucianism too! - which, by the by, would involve billions of humans! So there is some sort of racist side effect in these visions because how could you possibly represent every ethnic type without destroying by expanding the nuclear family held by Adam and his Eve? Not that that doesn't sound kind of romantic, without the ideas of male sexual property- but I can't imagine anything more romantic than living in it amongst family and friends! Ah yes; the Garden of Eden was a KIBBUTZ! Everyone knows that a human is an innately social being. WE LIVED IN A GARDEN COMMUNE AND WORE FLOWERS ON OUR HEADS!
But about those Mexicans! Imagine being cut off from the rest of humanity because the Bering Sea melted or whatever the goose happened.... and in some cases FINDING real garden of Edens - at what point did their ancestral memory not forget that they came with a fresh memory of surviving in similar lands: the plains and rivers of Asia, the steppes out West and the Arabian deserts and Europe and Africa all the way to its hinterlands, and Southern and Southeastern Asia, everywhere in short... they came with a human civilizing mission; not so much militaristic like the Old World territories of power, but now with a strictly biological, which is to say human, mission, that of transforming the land in the mastery of humanity. What does a grape vine do but grow and then get smooshed to be drunk? HM? Well naturally the indigenous Amerindians originally assembled into a Bering caravan rent their ways and grew to inhabit different land whence diversity of communities and the seeking of certain green pastures.
Thus spread, the ancient seeds of Eurasia and Africa underwent transformation, in combination with their new lands. Mangoes and oowalla bears and the vast body of jungle created a whole new universe which sadly is being ripped apart this very moment, but only to remind us that we are all one in these dark times and oh, what beautiful civilizations! So many wise and artful understandings of the spirit and the soul and its trek, of Mother Earth and the way of her flowers and herbs; in short, there has been an immense gain for human "colonization" of the Americas. Yes, Europe became a cannibalist to many other lands, yes indeed, though I guess poor people were poor and desperate - is the average European a cruel beast? How can that be? For even Europe is not a fortress, though of course the World plays it like it is one.
Okay well I'm stoned and tired and want to go to bed. Merry Christmas my goodly souls, and happy holidays.
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