Seeing Through To The Emperor's Extravagant Pretension — A Domination Chronicle Podcast
Superficial critique can fail to reach — or even obscure — deep critique: Explore the difference as we look at a recent case.
A concurring opinion in FLYING T RANCH v. STILLAGUAMISH TRIBE, October 9, 2025, from the Supreme Court of the State of Washington criticized the ‘racism’ of foundational cases in ‘federal Indian law’.
This gives us an opportunity to show the limitations of critiquing the rhetoric of legal decisions, instead of challenging the actual doctrines established by those decisions.
We show that the rhetoric of domination is not the same as the domination decisions themselves: Redacting the rhetoric leaves the domination intact.
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Thanks for another deep look and analysis. The mention of "feudal" got me to look at the etymology which reminded of:
"Sanskrit word for war, gavisti, literally means a desire for more cows."
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"Feudal: "1610s, "pertaining to feuds," estates of land granted by a superior on condition of services to be rendered to the grantor, from Medieval Latin feudalis, from feudum "feudal estate, land granted to be held as a benefice," of Germanic origin (cognates: Gothic faihu "property," Old High German fihu "cattle;" see fee). Related to Middle English feodary "one who holds lands of an overlord in exchange for service" (late 14c.).
"Fee "The Old English word is feoh "livestock, cattle; movable property; possessions in livestock, goods, or money; riches, treasure, wealth; money as a medium of exchange or payment," from Proto-Germanic *fehu (source also of Old Saxon fehu, Old High German fihu, German Vieh "cattle," Gothic faihu "money, fortune"). This is from PIE *peku- "cattle" (source also of Sanskrit pasu, Lithuanian pekus "cattle;" Latin pecu "cattle," pecunia "money, property")."
This discussion made me think of Redthought minus JoDy Goudy…what happened to that forum because I cannot seem to locate it anymore.