On the "white man" comment. I was trying to make the point about displacement of indigenous peoples and how it effects them (including Native Americans). Perhaps this is not the place for those types of comments. My real point is that the article should not be about Kava. It should be about the Aborigines fight against addiction and/or their preference to use their idle time to get wasted on whatever is handy. The leader of the Aborigines knows good and well what is going on but he prefers to demonize the substance and not place the blame where it squarely belongs, on his own people. I apologise if any of my comments offended anyone.
Although we "all" kind of already agreed the "white man burden" suff isn't for this forum, I still have some points I would like to share, take it or leave it.
I completely understand Deleted User01's aspect and comparing. For me I more think that there is no land to be stolen from anyone. The world is for the organisms living on it, that includes all people, all animals or even things we are fighting against since the beginning of time, e..g. viruses, bacteria.
My point is that we should be able to live anywhere, and no one should be able to say "this is "my people's territory, you are not welcome". Ok, if we speak fo a house, a yard, I agree we should be able to have those properties privately. But when a group of people call themselves "Swedish", "Americans", or whatever you want, that's when the serious problem begins.
In my utopia, the first Europeans to come to America should be able to go there and live there. But they should by no means have the right to tell people already living there the piss off, nor should the people who already living there be able to tell the Europeans to piss off. Same goes for South Africa, the British Empire, Australia. I'm sad to say it's next to always Europe who have done these things, except for some Arabic eras around Northern Africa and even Spain for awhile.
And yes, we where not as intelligent nor as empathic back in the days towards people not living close to us. Distances where much huger back then. Today I can sit on skype with Thailand or America from Sweden without even a second of delay. Things have changed and they have changed dramatically.
However, the history is constantly repeating itself. For example, we might not come with our troops and tell people to piss off anymore (although it does happen...), but we more go to places like let's say Phuket and simply buy it all. Until we end up with the profits, and the natives lives in shacks and shelters. Now Europeans/Americans aren't necessarily the worst in this issue. The Chinese are doing exactly this and have been doing it for years. They know how to begin from the bottom but end up with an empire, like most of Thailand's gold Market etc.
So, are they doing right? Are they doing wrong? On one hand I think it's wrong. On the other hand it pisses me off when Thais tell me I can't own land there, only 49% which is more than enough for me, but still, it's the principle. I simply don't agree with the idea of Nations in this way.
We are all brothers and sisters. Sure we may look a little different, speak a little different, which is a natural cause of being far away from each other for thousand and thousands of years. Still we all come from the same family eventually. And we should be able to choose freely where we want to live and what we want to do there.
I know many will disagree with me. What about all the Muslims coming building Mosques all around the States etc. What about the millions of Southern Americans invading the country in hunt for work. it sure would be a chaos. But the chaos would be because we have created a situation where chaos, in my point of view, is inevitably sooner or later. Sure, lets wait a few hundred years more, people will get more and more, supplies will not be enough and people will start to walk towards areas that still stands more or less stable. Which then might be China for all that we know...
I know, I'm very liberal, and not so very classic liberal/Capitalistic. After all I am born and raised in Sweden, and we are often pictured as a communist state in The States. Which couldn't be further from the truth, but I guess it depends on what you compare with.
So what is my point? I hardly know. All I know is this Noble kava made me extremely talk active, so I have to apologize for my little outburst here. I guess I'm trying to find a solution, or a reason. Or perhaps simply trying to see how we could unify this world that believe themselves being of so many different races, taking rights over others, while in truth being so similar each other.
So my conclusion? I want to see open borders, I want to see a free market, I want the monetary system to again to be built on units of gold and not on debt.
I want to be able to start a business in let's say Uganda, and I want an Ugandan be able to start a business in Sweden.
I want the GDP to even out over the world. And I want us to share the surface brotherly and without violence and claims of ownership or similar issues.
Impossible? well, I guess 98% impossible to make my utopia true, sure. But I do feel we have a great future ahead of us.
People do complain about violence, about unjust systems. About how America wants to take over the world, blablabla.
I want to say F*** that. Like we where better off in the past?
Look far enough and you will see people fighting for a piece of meat, gor forward a bit and you will see people cheering while they kill each other at the Colosseum. Say what you want about Ultimate fighting, but it sure is a step forward from how things used to be.
People complain on wars. Well, statistically if you think of how many we are today, we have a very peaceful world compared with how the world used to be.
We hear threats sometimes. But it's been a long time since something serious happened. (ok, letting drones kill innocent Pakistanis and Afghans is a serious thing, but I do believe most of you get my point).
If we are continuing in this direction the world will become even more peaceful. Sure, internet is a great way to creat mass-psychosis, just look at the 2012 hysteria, illuminati, the bilderbergers, Anunaki and even that damn Planet X or whatever they call it. Sure, there may be truth to some of the claims. Usually there is always some truth to everything. But with sound effects, a good convincing voice and some good photography I'm sure I could make a "documentary" that would make people trully believe we are the ofspring of a plant that used to live on Mars etc.
Hmm, Ok so.. I'm extremely far from the topic, Ironic since I created it. Congrats to those who read all the way here, you just lost some valuable time
It's wrong what the white man did to the aboriginals in the past in Australia, but then again many things are wrong that happened in the past, and they aren't so easy to reverse.
The aboriginals should have the right to consume Kava, abusing it or not. They have to let them do things their way for once, and find their answers for themselves where to turn next. That's the only way I can see to end this empire thing we Europeans once started.
The End...
