The great conversation doesn’t reflect nearly enough around effects on diaspora and the effects too on those that remain in the present and longstanding, as in a few thousand years at a minimum longstanding, recorded history if you will, arrangements for human movement around the planet. The terms and priority frameworks we live under at present being those put into favor by the merchant class making of the world. Contrary to popular opinion, and without going into details of stolen peoples whom their own were not even bought and paid for that comprise the very long list of indentured servants I descend from, the very reasons I live on the side of the planet that I do. And even the same for those that came later, survivors of the famine, those fleeing World War synergies that were beyond catastrophic and never would’ve arisen if it weren’t for the harms of globalization and its long trail of tears. The sum of which is the same for so many.
All added up, why most European Americans are on this side of the pond and Euro diaspora elsewhere too, all of which is and was always deeply resented wherever it was they landed by choice or force. The easiest and least controversial lens for witnessing why every aim to right one injustice, seems simply to fuel another. Something my life has graciously led me to see in all directions I look outwardly towards. A trap ultimately revealed, to much be so focused on it. Fancy work to justify not breaking cycles in much larger ways.
Though I understand not digging into the past, not triggering others by bringing up uncomfortable long ago silenced realities that the dominant culture is adamant must remain buried so as to not unsettle those the proverbial we are committed to making comfortable at all costs these days, the unwellnesses we grapple with in time will not be overcome in deeply seeded ways systemically unless we have the courage to unsettle myths that have removed international relationality from understanding world making across time, and thus relevantly, in time too. How much longer must we go on doing this? Forever maybe, but that’s not my problem. I am but one witness who can witness and reflect with all my heart and authenticity I can awaken within while here.
While its effect may’ve been in its own way, America’s creation wasn’t the theft of a land base in root causation. It arose out of need for the merchant class to establish frameworks for capturing in the mass of humans that were already here and fighting for base freedom to exist where they were, desiring to be less controlled, to meet life as it was right in front of them. All of American history is a progression along that outcome, for all peoples that live in this land. Right or wrong to clarify in a world of such tightly controlled dialogue, the merchant class’s entry way in, to even have created such a problem, was by way of agreements with indigenous tribes for goods they wanted from the merchant offerings. Most all of globalization inroads begin on agreeable and curiosity related terms. Until resentments begin to grow after which it is always too late.
Why do I care about any such things at all? After all I’ve been through? For the love of my ancestral heritages in a timeless reality and outgrowing cages that’ve tried to projection ladenly define and box them into them. For some long wishful love of humanity that I no longer hold my breath for any degree of reciprocation. Yet I also care about pathways for elevating humans who are tired of old frameworks and the conflicts they give rise to in cyclical prediction.
Having said that, I see how the great conversation virtually undermines and negates how there is a severing between those that are removed or flee from a homeland and those that remain that is amplified and exaggerated the longer the severing is maintained when they are morally or literally, through warring, financial, relational, or in time legalese wise, kept away.
In a world that is nowhere near open borders, and a humanity that should have the wherewithal to recognize basic feedback loops in that fueling rapid acceleration in exponential growth in places that already have unsustainable needs on world exchange systems for their very survival will only increase such pulls and power, not alleviate them, it’s mind boggling that there is little synergy for how to shift and reframe the focus entirely other than turning to two competing faction extremes, both of whom are actually in the right. Oh, the irony.
But even that, common folk are forbidden from confessing without risk for grave social consequences aren’t we? And we wonder why braver solutions remain buried in near all dilemmas. Dominant stories are always maintained in this globalizing culture by means of fear based constraining parameters. It’s an old hat the entirety of globalization was built upon. Up to and including the fear of missing out. A truer and more powerful chain than most can fathom because we are relational beings at our core.
I have suffered most in my life for refusing to dehumanize one side or another. It’s cost me everything nearly, even loved ones who believed open mindedness was their devotion. It was until it wasn’t. Though truthfully, I’m not one to want to just sit back and complain, however, and I’ve created a lot of isolation in my life for being judged as that too for not loving all the present-day trajectories of old or the unmet promised new that felt more suffocating either. Tangible, practical steps are always accessible. I genuinely believe that all the solutions we need for any problem we could possibly have already exist, in sum within the brilliancy of humanity. One of our greatest problems is that most go about envisioning ways out of any varying concern by means that insist on limitation and dehumanizing whomever is determined must be dehumanized to empower whom is desired to be lifted up.
Without further digression, what if right of return was an international human right? Despite how messy that could be. More important in world healing decrees than importation of refugees ever may be. Provenly. Thousands of years of lessons at all scales of such making have we, as in humanity, and look at the mess its made.
Such a question worth asking in my humble opinion, in that it appears one that is all but ignored, overlooked, perhaps intentionally, to dissuade healing such severing’s. Imagine the entire underlayment psychospiritually for human movement discourse works and synergies across generations transitioning away from that of the Abrahamic one of entitlements. What any can get out of it? What’s in it for them, to gain, to take, however they can, ever justified for righting what is being fled from, or what some God, Yahweh, or Allah has given them right to claim.
There is an ongoing and growing long list of resentments of what entitlements create when landing anywhere is not what world stories have promised would be found. Outright upper merchant echelon ‘boosters’ lied about conditions historically for America after its legalese establishment to get humans to sign onto impossible to meet loans and terms in desperate hope, and in a world humanitarian narrative way of sorts today, it’s not entirely different. And look at the conflicts that our closeminded global society has reduced the internationally created complexities down to. We see it near everywhere where international priorities and access are still prioritized over the needs of local places to also thrive.
What would change if the very foundation of discourse changed to that of what can one offer? How can they contribute? How can they help raise up personally where one would be going? And not just in ways they see fit to them and theirs. The entire paradigm would shift by simple right of return making as preeminent in preferences in the foundations of immigration languagescapes. Words shape our worlds and semantics matter. Imagine if transformations shifted. How many more wars will it take to know the old ways have failed humanity? To know humanity has got to change dynamically.
Despite how messy it could be, despite how geopolitics for globalization shapes things, right of return matters. And it matters to far more than me. Spend one day listening to Africans and their love for their homelands, even those that have never been, listening to any of the long list of bloody wars of Near East conflicts, what are now civil wars, regardless of how one sees it. But in being more honest, the very wars we see now are thousands of years in the making by way of the deepest forgetting’s that they were always a civil war made into an international problem like all wars are now days. Severing’s, and the frameworks around them, all have been made blind to by scapegoating the problems. Spend one day talking to passerby’s in the Wild Wild West of America too and you would understand the calling is intimate and personal and stirs from the inner most waters within individuals.
Why some don’t much hear it at all, I cannot say. What I do know is that to try to ignore it for others is a murderous slow bleeding death for the soul. Suicide by 10,000 cuts to ignore it. And it doesn’t go away with any amount of forceful forgetting. If we understood that, perhaps we’d understand better why things have to change, if nowhere else but in our own minds. Thus I repeat myself, how many more wars will it take?
