Expose and Expel

Practical Steps Toward Healing From the Curse of Colonization: Part 3

We are the proverbial mules to which the lionized colonizers long ago hitched their wagons, using us to carry out their brutish vision and shield their lineage from the burden of acknowledging wrongdoing, engineering our complicity in order to escape accountability.

Following the imperialist’s rulebook, we’ve learned to compartmentalize empathy and dissociate from the past, teaching our children to believe what we were taught: that our modern day customs have nothing to do with historical events.

Part of the allure of exiling history, pretending that it has no influence on life today- is the promise of safety. Many of us have been convinced that hiding from the past coupled with proximity to power equals protection.

We play by their rules at our own peril.

In truth, safety under colonial rule is an illusion that only serves those poised at the pinnacle, pulling all the strings.

We’re a society teetering atop a massive pile of unidentified slain individuals who are decomposing beneath our very feet.

There is nothing truly safe about these disintegrating structures that require ceaseless death and destruction underground to bolster the illusion of “stability” aboveground.

Those at the highest heights are banking on being the last to fall, and they’re doing everything they can to slow the erosion of their morbid structures by frantically stuffing its wretched foundations with sacrificial corpses.

Built on blood-soaked soil, the kingdom’s collapse is delayed as long as collateral victims continue to fill the unmarked graves beneath it.

That is where our participation in ceremonial bloodshed comes in, aka Thanksgiving. We’re useful to empire only when we ingest their diseased dogma and animate their morally anemic rituals.

Many people are somewhat cognizant of the dispossession, broken treaties, and genocide of Indigenous Peoples, but it’s not common knowledge that the barbaric annihilation of Bison was a tool used to execute this abominable puritanical enterprise.

The slaughter never stopped.

Heads continue to roll to this very day in the dastardly Breed-to-Slaughter Industry (Animal Husbandry), systematizing savagery while simultaneously sterilizing its image.

The oligarchs have no plans to quit feeding us the gruel of their stories and the bodies to back them up, because the goal is to make us complicit and keep us participating in the role set out for us as consumers.

We’re eating to make their lifestyle possible. They don’t provide carcasses for our plates because it’s good for us, but rather because it guarantees that we shoulder the moral ramifications of unspeakable brutality while justifying the continued exploitation of stolen land which generates wealth for the hoarders at the top.

It’s up to us to ask ourselves why we dutifully partake in violence against vulnerable populations when we have the opportunity to opt out.

Let’s get real and inquire honestly: are we any more compassionate or concerned about the devastating impacts of our actions than those first colonizers were towards Indigenous Peoples…?

We might not have malicious intent, but if turkeys could talk, how likely is it that they wouldn’t describe us as merciless crusaders out for blood?! They’ve seen and experienced too much, witnessing systematized brutality of their kin at unfathomable scales, and taken their ghastly traumas with them to their early graves- first in our bellies, then back to Earth where the energy of pain & fear floods our collective reality.

I hope more people allow themselves to consider that our participation in this ritual mass ingestion provides protective armor for the unscrupulous empire, preserving the insidious illusion of innocence, stunting our ability to experience true healing and emancipation that our hearts truly desire.

We’re being cursed by cultural narratives that obstruct our natural instinct to express reverence for all souls, leading us to betray our birthright to a clear conscience.

We cannot reverse the impacts of the genocide of Indigenous Peoples, but we can learn. The truth will empower us to call out ongoing violence & reject corrupt ideologies that started with early settlers, inspiring us to further educate ourselves about heinous sadism which created a lasting legacy that reverberates through the country to this day.

Armed with knowledge and integrity, we’re more likely to stand for justice & accountability, and refuse to be used as a cover for pilgrim’s unhinged rampages by no longer partaking in ritual sacrifice associated with celebrating colonization.

We’re free to rid ourselves of treacherous tenets that do not reflect our capacity for love, hope, and peace, and in doing so, cauterize the open festering wounds we’ve been tricked into self-inflicting. It is a profound act of empowerment to intentionally reject traditional creeds that don’t align with the authentic self.

Indeed, we have the power to expel toxic doctrines from the land of our consciousness that has been under colonial occupation for centuries.

We can do this by activating dormant empathy, just as the 46 million slain turkeys would have us do if they had the ability to make us aware of our shared sovereignty.

As citizens of Earth who hold reverence for the lives of fellow Earthlings, we can invite healing any time we want, whenever we’re ready, and as a result, with conviction to live in alignment with the Universal Values of empathy, respect, justice, nonviolence, compassion, and mercy… we just might start to see fundamental shifts transforming the world around us.