Topic: New World Order
Is Russell Means a Lakotah 'Creationist' ? Native American 'radical' Russell Means has declared the 'Republic of Lakotah' as an independent country outside US jursidiction. More importantly, is he an 'Indian Creationist?'by Nick Flint
(Libertarian)
Monday, June 23, 2008
Is Mr. Russell Means an Indian Creationist? Or is he a free-thinking beneficiary of enlightenment America?
And why should we care? Because 'creationism' plays into the hand of those seeking more statist controls and power over Americans, and gives unearned profits to those 'New World Order'-fraud profiteers.
If I was a proud Lakotah ancestor, or a proud American within the 'new Lakotah republic', I would care for Mr. Means answer very much. Here's why:
There are people who consider themselves 'Biblical Creationists'. These individuals subscribe to the literal 7 day Genesis creation of the earth and the heavens. They claim that all men and all creatures and plants were created 'as-is', as they exist today. Evading geological and physiological evidence gathered by regular non-political, free-thinking individuals over the past 4 centuries, biblical creationist profiteers continue to claim that nature has not 'selected' species by natural means, where the weak are eliminated and the strong survive, thereby passing favorable qualities to future generations of the species.
Lest the reasonable among us mistakenly lays sole blame to the biblical creationists for all the anti-enlightenment and anti-science political regulations proposed and passed over the past 100 years, we must not underestimate their mystical-co-conspirators - the so-called 'Indian Creationists'
Consider this excerpt from an article in New York Times "Indian Tribes' Creationists Thwart Archeologists" Link.
"We never asked science to make a determination as to our origins," said Sebastian LeBeau, repatriation officer for the Cheyenne River Sioux, a Lakota tribe based in Eagle Butte, S.D. "We know where we came from. We are the descendants of the Buffalo people. They came from inside the earth after supernatural spirits prepared this world for humankind to live here. If non-Indians choose to believe they evolved from an ape, so be it. I have yet to come across five Lakotas who believe in science and in evolution."
(My digressive rebuttal: And yet the internet and light-speed global communications would not be possible without science. 'Supernatural spirits' didn't create the abundance that Mr. LeBeau enjoys as an American living in today's era. Such apparitions never could, and never will, be the source of values we enjoy on earth today: the prime value being an abundant food supply that keeps us months and years away from devolving into tribal hand-to-mouth 'societies' of the past. To the degree that our food supplies are today threatened, we must blame government interference into farming and the agriculture industry. There's no deficiency in our understanding of mass-market food production and distribution.)
Even though Charles Darwin never wrote that man evolved from apes, creationists have long smeared Darwin as the inventor of this 'man-from-ape' notion.
I personally view the 'missing link' theory that today purports that all mankind originated from somewhere deep in Africa to be nothing but Politically-Correct garbage. Yet I think that we could and did evolve into men by first a natural process, then by a non-natural process (See 'Origin of Consciousness' book by Julian Jaynes). The proponents of the 'missing link' theory might have had good intentions, and might today simply be trying to get people to discard their racist views, but they are misguided and in fact are achieving the opposite -- the 'out of Africa' notion is multiplying worldwide racist views.
All that today's 'missing-link' 'man-from-african-apes' theory has done is perpetuated racism the world over. No one that I know of wants to be associated with African apes, and yet I've noticed that nearly every non-african is more than willing to promote that racist view that black africans 'probably did' evolve from apes.
I personally subscribe to the 'Multiple-Point-of-Origin' theory, a theory that I came up with within the last decade. It's quite obvious to me that man and ape are from a similar point of origin, but that common ancestor would have been within the ocean, not from some land-based origin. It's also obvious that the evolution of our oceanic ancestors to become land-based would've occurred over the entire globe, not merely at the equatorial point in Africa. That means that homo sapiens could have several original land based transitional 'origin points' from which men evolved on earth independently of each other, adapting to the evironments over millions of years.
Can we please respect each other enough as men to not proclaim each other 'dumb apes'? Let the radical zionists stop calling everyone else dumb apes. Let the radical christians stop calling everyone else dumb apes. Let the radical islamists stop calling everyone else dumb apes. Let the radical native americans stop calling everyone else dumb apes.
We, as men, are not from dumb apes. Our ancestors are not from those land-based animals of today. We, as men, all have the capacity for volitional conscious thought. We, as men, all have the capacity to choose our future. We, as men, all have the capacity to reform the earth according to our values, and to ensure our survival -- as men, not as animals. In other words, we can survive as a moral civilization, beyond any Darwinian amoral existence that originally controlled our tribal (unconscious) ancestors.
Man can and always has been able to do things that dumb apes never could. That's because we're men. Let's start treating each other with respect, and start treating science as the life-giving value that it always has been.
Enlightenment knowledge and the American ideals have made it possible for Americans to co-exist without religious hatreds and without racial intolerances. America is the first country born of the enlightenment. If we throw out our enlightenment (scientific) roots, we will lose everything that America has represented: the victory of the private over the public, the victory of the individual over the tribe. The victory of independence over self-sacrifice. Tribal and biblical creationist profiteers want sacrifice of individual thoughts to their dogmatic world views.
Americans should thoroughly and forever reject 'Creationists' dogma as the racist fundamentalist garbage for which it always has been.
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Do you have some basis for asking the question? If so, you should share it, like perhaps something Means has said, etc. I'm fairly certain that he follows a traditional belief system, but I'm missing the connection.
Suggesting that a view of one Native activist represents them all is...a little elitist.
Indeed, since to the Native people, those Archaeologists are the spawn of thieves and as such trespassers-that's not a religious position, but legal and moral one.
If you were to look at the lifestyle of reservations, I suspect that your adulation of technology might fall a bit short-they are bloody poor.
I'm not quite sure why you mention Russell Means, and then spend the remaining 95% of your article on an anti-Creationist tirade. I'm not sure what the point is, nor am I sure that a 'Libertarian' should be so quick to urge the annhilation of others' belief systems.
I will also tell you that you are very mistaken in applying linear, western, rational thinking to Native American ontologiocal understandings, which are closer to Celtic and Eastern patterns of thinking. Means' claim of descent from the Buffalo People is hardly different from the traditional Irish claim to be descended from the Tuatha Denaan.....
In any event, you may understand creationst theory, but you don't appear to understand Lakhota culture.
I am a free-thinkwer, a Deist and an agnostic, but I have to agree with Walter Block and disagree with Mr. Flint here. Religion is a friend to liberty in a secular society because it presents a counter-force to the state. The enemy of my enemy etc, etc.
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