Social Ciphering

Musings on the Instinctive System Urge to Negate Reality: 8/5/21

When early modern Europeans arrived on primeval shores and attempted to convince people living in nature that the Forest was a wicked abomination and that they were its horrid children doomed from birth to damnation for the crime of being born evil—such people resisted these teachings.

To accept that a tree that fed you, sheltered you and provided bark for your canoe, was intrinsically bad made little sense to the natives. The only converts to the new faith of erasure were those who were, in some cases, outcasts from their own people and seeking a master, but in most cases seduced by steel, iron, guns and rum. Such factors weighed the more heavily on he whose family was being felled by unheard of disease, which the Strangers' claimed had been sent by their Great Spirit to punish those forest dwellers who refused to accept the erasure of their reality, which was the forest.