Civilized ways...

1868 Fort Laramie peace treaty included a part of Native American’s civilizing. The original people’s ways were considered uncivilized and savage. Especially the hunting was considered a sign of barbarian ways when farming and agriculture were signs of civilized men according to Europeans.

Now when 9 billion’s population limit is closing with increasing famine, pollution, scarcity of clear water sources and lack of livings space one begins to wonder the civilizations definition. By exploiting the nature’s resources and maximizing the production, we’re heading faster and faster towards the dead-end.

Now some of you might want to remind me all the good we’ve achieved – technology, medicine, wellbeing and all the trendy words. Well, you will not be reminding me of the fact that all the good things comes to 20% of population to the detriment of 80%. Our wellbeing in western world is based on the fact that there’s always somewhere someone who don’t have a choice but to put their minor kids to factory and work on fields without summer holidays or health insurance 20 hours a day. Our well-being is based on abusing and exploiting other people.

We blamed the Native American’s of laziness when they we’re not obsessed with economic growth. However, they had maintained their ways 11 000 years before white men came. We’ve had this growth based system about a 10% of that time and we’re already on the run towards the destruction of whole planet. Civilized, huh?