This week I just want to share a 90 minute documentary that one of my friends on Facebook shared with me. She is a Native American and the documentary is, essentially, a long lecture from Russel Means. In the video Means speaks about how, due to the negligence of our ancestors and the negligence of ourselves, we have allowed the United States to turn into one giant reservation. He speaks of how the corruption that plagues the U.S. today is just an evolution of the corruption of yesterday. He speaks of history, of corruption, of current issues that we must deal with. He speaks of how the idea of a republic came from the Iroquois league, he speaks of how we have allowed our republic to become bought out, and thus corrupted, by corporate and banking powers. He refers to U.S. politics as a single party with two names, whose only real difference is in their spending. He speaks of how America lacks culture and says that this is why we are so materialist minded. He also claims that Americans have lost their ability to think critically and with each generation it seems to get worse, further leading to a degradation of the American system as a whole as we become more and more irresponsible. He also states that this growing irresponsibility is also the reason why America is becoming less and less free. He also links this loss of freedom with the creation of corporations and the influence of private banks. Overall, it is a pretty radical perspective from one of the most well known Native Activists.
Please excuse the Alex Jones aspect of it however, haha. He's certainly not my favorite person and I do think he's a little overbearing and crazy at times, but nonetheless he does have some good points and regardless this is a great lecture by Russell Means.
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