Rugged strength requires disorder as a counterweight to the illusory tidiness of number and DNA, the parallel system that the ego of acolytes is irresistibly drawn into. Disorder provides the feuding state of affairs, the carrion that attracts vultures. And it provides the dirt and germs that strengthen the immune-responses.
Health is a process of metamorphosis that strengthens defences whereby what is left to be in nature is the source of human socio-economy.
Since modern Man inhabits an infertile system of weakness (DNA, 'clean-meat'), it never seems to occur that the logical system of capital-democracy is only one option of government. In Andrea Warner's biography of Buffy Sainte-Marie, the point is made that ethnic forms of government are equally viable, more so if one believes in history.
Cradleboard emphasises the concept of living in a circle, seeing one's self as part of the continuum, and therefore affected by everything that came before - beginning, middle, and end. In studying governments through indigenous eyes, fourth-gradevCradleboard kids learned about the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Plains Tribes and the Pueblo forms of government, and discovered that-surprise, surprise-there are multiple ways to govern, not just one based on government in parliamentary hierarchy. Without tearing anything else down, Cradleboard taught that there are alternate ways of governing not rooted in colonialism. (page 212)
Communal forms of government - the Pueblo autonomous villages North of Mexico - grow out of socio-economic history of the stability of harvests, the sources of irrigation..
As Buffy says (page 211), the Haudenosaunee Confederacy "actually practices democracy, which the Greeks only talked about." (Athenian democracy finished with the end of the Peloponnesean war, and the Spartan terms for peace.)
Now, a socio-economic history is cyclical and lives off of the spin of the Earth (see P200 invariable time). The rhythms are to do with strengthening effects of metamorphosis from degradation (seasons.) The cycles provide strength because of the presence of dirt - in soil - that sustains germs that strengthen immune-responses. The source of strength is ever-present, and represents the underworld (in Greek myth, Persephone - spring - lives with Pluto in Hades for 6 months of the year, then joins her mother, Demeter - harvest.)
Buffy also makes the point that 'the West' is a euphemism for 'white'. We live in a system implemented by white (men) for what is perceived as a certain type of head.
