On January 17, 2007 the Aitkin Independent Age, a Minnesota county newspaper, published
the following letter.
This letter to the editor was also published in the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe's Lake
Traverse Reservation newspaper, a newspaper
named Sota. Lake Traverse Reservation is located in South Dakota and is home to 10,840
Sisseton-Wahpeton people.
This letter is also displayed on the Indigenous Peoples Literature website. Over 10,000,
000 people have visited this website.
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System not good for humans
The unnatural and inhumane regulation of ordinary people's lives by the elite of
large organizations and institutions is necessary for
the functioning of the current industrial-technological society.
The media is mostly under the control of large organizations that are integrated into
the system. Therefore, to make an impression
on society with articles, letters to editors, essays etc. is almost impossible for most
individuals and small groups. The result is
a sense of powerlessness on the part of non-elite members of society who have an important
message or insight to share with others,
a message or insight that the elite do not want published or read.
Example of an insight:
The United Nations' recent World Conference Against Racism exposed the true
history of the Catholic Church, and also, but to a lesser
degree, both some Protestant churches as well as our nation. The elite of the Catholic
Church as well as both the elite of some
Protestant churches and our nation's federal government denied indigenous people
their basis human rights, and in doing so, caused
genocides, holocausts, ethic cleansings, slavery, grand theft of indigenous
people's homelands etc., therefore, if the elite
predecessors of the present-day elite were responsible for such terrible atrocities,
what might the present-day elite be
guilty of?
To blindly trust in their moral guidance, as many do, is to abandon reason, an essential
component of a good moral conscience. And this,
in turn, leads to more and more atrocities.
Because of the present-day so-called "free press informational system", a brainwashing
system, some activists (not including myself)
have come to believe that violent actions are necessary to get their message out to the
great multitude of brainwashed servants of the
powerful elite. The current elite-run industrial-technological society cannot, without
a great effort by non-violent revolutionaries
(like myself), be broken down into freedom-loving, small, autonomous communities, such
as primitive tribal communities, because the
elite have a system in place wherein production depends on the collective cooperation of
very large numbers of people.
The current system forces people to behave in ways that are increasingly alien from the
natural order of human behavior. For example,
the system needs scientists, mathematicians and engineers. It can't function without them.
So heavy pressure is put on children to excel
in these fields. It isn't natural for an adolescent to spend most of his/her time sitting
at a desk absorbed in study. A normal adolescent
wants to spend his/her time in active contact with the real natural world.
Among primitive peoples the activities that children are trained to do are in harmony
with natural human behavior. Among Americas
Indians, for example, boys were trained in active outdoor pursuits - just the sort of
things that boys like. But in our society
children are herded into crowded indoor class rooms to study technical subjects, which
most do with resentment.
Another example: The elite think that they need to prolong young adults' sexual
inclinations and behavior in order to efficiently prepare
them for occupations in the system. Instead of preparing young adults for marriage, by
helping them to stay in harmony with their natural
biological time table, as primitive societies did, (young adults married by the age of
sixteen) they prolong adolescents, and by doing
so, they promote sexual perversion, which causes young adults to have multiple sex
partners, which in turn causes a venereal diseases
health epidemic as well as unwanted pregnancies which in many cases end with abortion.
In addition, this problem with the elite also
creates a lot of fatherless welfare recipient families.
Because of the constant pressure that the system exerts to unnaturally modify human
behavior, there is a gradual increase in the number
of people who cannot or will not adjust to society's requirements: fraudulent welfare
recipients, youth-gang members, counter-cultural
hippies, cultists, anti-government rebels, radical environmentalist saboteurs, dropouts
and many other resisters of various kinds.
The current system does not exist to satisfy human needs. Instead, it is human behavior
that is being unnaturally modified to fit the
needs of the system. Therefore, if the system is not radically transformed, so that it
exists to satisfy natural human needs it will
soon self-destruct into anarchy.
Thomas Dahlheimer
Wahkon
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