One planet, one humanity: Many worlds

George Manuel & Aleksandr Dugin....

Human Diversity: An intentional casualty of “Christian discovery” and “globalization”

“Indigenous is nearly synonymous with diversity.” {Jose Barrerio (Taino), “A Generation Passes”, Akwe:kon Press, American Indian Program, Cornell University (1997)}

Indigenous:

1. A “Native” person

2. That which occurs naturally in a particular place

Dasein (German: literally, being-there):

1. An individual human being

2. “The place” within which a historical community exists

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George Manuel & Michael Posluns:

The history of the past four centuries of … conflictual relationship… between the colonizer and Indigenous peoples has been a struggle between two fundamentally incommensurable "ideas of land": land as a commodity, as something that "can be speculated, bought, sold, mortgaged, claimed by one state, surrendered or counter-claimed by another," and land as a relationship: "The land is our Mother Earth ".

Indigenous peoples' struggle to defend [their places on Earth] against … violent globalization … is [the]… core of the struggle of what Manuel calls the "Fourth World." {Glen Sean Coulthard, “Introduction”, Manuel & Posluns, The Fourth World: An Indian Reality (1974, 2019)}

Aleksandr Dugin:

When the three grand political theories of the Twentieth century — capitalism, Communism and fascism — have ultimately proven incapable of governing peoples peaceably, what is left to do?

Only one, radical solution remains: to devise a different approach, a Fourth Political Theory. {Alain Soral: “Foreword”, Dugin, The Fourth Political Theory (2012)}

To Be or Not To Be

Manuel:

The Christian view of the world, as we have received it, is a vertical triangle with each level of leadership being closer to God. The state, as we have seen it, is the perfect mirror image of this triangle. This is not the shape of our world.

Perhaps when men no longer try to have ‘dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that liveth upon the earth,’ they will no longer try to have dominion over us. It will be much easier to be our brother’s keeper then.

The Canadian mosaic is carved from a split personality. This itself is enough to distinguish the Indian peoples from the multicultural society.

We are neither an ethnic group nor a province of Canada. The imposition of models on those who did not have a hand in the design has been the problem throughout our history. Clearly, the right to design our own model is the first step toward the Fourth World. Home rule begins with the opportunity to build that model with all the ingredients that the tides of history have washed up on our shores.

Dugin:

Every individual and every culture possesses their own Dasein. They differ between each other, but they are always present.

Accepting Dasein as the subject of the Fourth Political Theory, we should progress toward the elaboration of a common strategy in the process of the creation of a future that fits to our demands and our visions. Such values as social justice, national sovereignty and traditional spirituality can serve us as the foundation…

The future world should be …characterised by multiplicity; diversity should be taken as its richness and its treasure, and not as a reason for inevitable conflict: many civilisations, many poles, many centres, many sets of values on one planet and in one humanity. Many worlds.

An Indigenous Nomos of the Earth

An Indigenous nomos of the Earth means a pluralistic world community arising from a shared set of non-sovereign relationships of humans to land and humans to humans.

An Indigenous nomos organizes the Earth’s spatial order around the absence of sovereignty and the presence of diversity. {Peter d’Errico, Federal Anti-Indan Law: The Legal Entrapment of Indigenous Peoples (2022)}

Christianity’s response to its “discovery” of the “new world” was “an effort to . . . [make] everything speak . . . with one voice.” Non-Christian societies were given a “choice”: to assimilate to the church system and give up their independence or to be destroyed. The underlying assumption was that there is only one reality, and it is Christian. {Jens Bartelson, A Genealogy of Sovereignty (1995)}

This is a key feature of the modern age: the homogenization of culture, the defeat of subcultures with their alternative languages, ways of life, and modes of consciousness. Life became less diverse, and therefore less rich and more precarious. {Morris Berman, Coming to Our Senses: Body and Spirit in the Hidden History of the West (1989)}