Drugs in Public View · published 2024-10-14 · 43 views on YouTube
I’m not sleeping. The engines outside are roaring. Strangers are more afraid of each other than the government. Reality is stranger than fiction.
My approach to the topic of denying the existence of residential schools in the ongoing process of colonization in Canada comes out of my own study and background.
I grew up near a FN reserve in BC. I saw firsthand how indigenous people were shunned, insulted, and disregarded by many white people in that community. Words of derision, physical and emotional violence, the presumption that nothing good should be done for First Nations people as a whole and that nothing good comes from them to “Canadian culture.”
Of course individuals vary. People like my mom found enough teaching of compassion and respect to cry for the pain of the Earth, I saw those tears, I saw the abuse in town, close, and around. I would help my mom with chores listening to albums, loud enough, like Tracy Chapman’s New Beginnings, with songs like “Cold Feet” and “Rape of the World”. I saw the degradation of forests on every hillside in BC. I stood in my heart with Clayoquot Sound with 1990s iconic “War in the Woods” protesters while my father was a logger and I obviously didn’t yet know who was denying what and where!
I remember my experience of the school playground kids and high school locker kids insulting me and calling me weird my whole life. In university, I studied philosophy of mind and English thought and language. I have multiple diagnoses of schizophrenia, epilepsy, chronic pain, and PTSD, to name a few.
Honour First Nations. Protect the forests for the whales. Stop all pipeline constructions. We all benefit much more making less money if it this dirty to do it. We’ll be too tired to clean it all up…
Sources:
Confronting Residential School Denialism, September 30th, 2024 Pam Palmater, with Dr. Sean Carleton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmwJZz7iv7Q&pp=ygUWcGFtIHBhbG1hdGVyIGRlbmlhbGlzbQ%3D%3D
Gerda Lerner, The Creation of Patriarchy, 1986
Gregory Bateson, Steps To An Ecology of Mind, 1972
Michel Foucault, History of Madness, 1961 __ This has been a production of nednednerB the Schizophrenic http://www.nednednerb.com
Mostly, in my videos I discuss schizophrenia, mental health, and philosophy. To ease suffering through mental health education.
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