Douglas Mercer
February 9 2025
Kepler, Galielo, and Newton apparently don’t impress the grandees in California, a state which not that long ago represented the future. Forget about gravity and space travel, pay no mind to cybernetics and artificial intelligence, and planetary communication, in California the leaders think they have found a better way. And in a state which has become a province of Northern Mexico and on whose radio dials it is wall to wall Ranchera Music interspersed with commercials hawking god knows what because it’s all in a bastardized dog language, it’s not surprising that the wave of the future there will be delivered by everyone’s least favorite atavistic throwback, the Indian.
“Indigenous knowledge which posits Native Americans possess an innate understanding of how the world works, is thriving in California, where Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration has contended that Western science must embrace the generations of knowledge held by Indigenous communities.”
Of course when they speak of “knowledge” they are on rather shaky ground here, as far as I can see prior to the arrival of the Europeans that so called knowledge consisted of catching a fish or two now and again, and picking some berries in a catch as catch can way. It’s true the Indians knew how to scalp well and how to dispossess one another in tribal warfare, and in what is now Mexico they took drugged up simpletons to the top of a pyramid and ripped out their hearts, presented it to the sun, before gobbling it down with some salsa roja. Naturally that is nothing to base a modern future on, but then in California they pretty much have no future, having decided long ago to become a mixed-race abomination where hundreds of languages are spoken badly and you punch 34 if you want to get the message in the King’s.
“The Tribal Research Program establishes a new indigenous council to guide state climate policy, creates a report to to summarize state-wide climate change impacts on tribes, and funds a grand making initiative that provides $3.6 million for tribal-led climate change research that has an indigenous knowledge focus. The purpose of those grants is to help the state government tackle a variety of climate issues like wildfires.”
I think it’s fair minded to say that when it comes to the cutting edge and it comes to the Indians one should never use the words “tribal” and “research” in the same sentence. My assumption is that the research involved here is a couple of red skinned cretins walking out of the building that was rented for them kneeling down and putting their ears to the ground, or closing their eyes and going into dream space, or possibly getting together in a circle and jumping up and down, and then typing up a memo which says that the White man and his machines mean heap big trouble.
But of course it’s that 3.6-million-dollar price tag which tells the tale here, what this really is is a great big boondoggle to keep some chiefs and squaws off the street and to boost their self-esteem. Now these zeros in headdresses can style themselves as scientists just like that James Clerk Maxwell fellow and can print up business cards with a teepee on it which says knowledge bringers. In the old days the Indians were content just to drink their whiskey, beat their kids and live off the government. Well, they are still living off the government but now instead of trudging down to the welfare office to get their dole, they sit in an office and do nothing of any note all day, but the digs are nice and they get to pretend they actually work for a living. Such is progress in the former Golden State.
“Separately, in April 2024, the Newsom administration distributed 107.7 million dollars for 33 tribal projects, ostensibly to help implement traditional ecological knowledge and tribal expertise, though Newsom also portrayed the funding as a form of reparations. These awards are an acknowledgment of past sins, a promise of accountability, and a commitment to a better future—for the land and all its people, especially its original stewards, Newsom said."
Now they don’t just have “research” but “projects” as well. But at least here they are somewhat honest and couch the giveaway of largesse as reparations, though what the White man who built this once dynamic and gleaming state with its futuristic marvels has to apologize for is beyond me. But now they no longer merely stand up before every session of the legislature and cringe and bow and scrape and say that they are on stolen land but pass laws by which the money flows out the door for meaningless organizations piloted by a people who didn’t even come up with the wheel. But what do you expect from a state in which you can no longer even use the perfectly good word “squaw” and in which Marlon Brando once sent a Mexican up to the podium and passed her off as an Indian; it’s true back then the crowd booed but no one would boo today, they could take any low IQ hotel maid off the street, put face paint on her and slip on the moccasins, and all of Hollywood would raise the roof and say it was a big blow for the brotherhood of man.
Of course this is all very tedious and tiresome and it appears that the White man is now at least slowly waking up to these scams but the state that was named after an imaginary island will always be a lagging indicator; and the celebrities there will cry a river about the poor illegal aliens rousted from their crimes, and they will live in their delirium that their multimillion dollar homes are on stolen ground but they are not going to cough them up. And when it comes to the knowledge of the so-called natives, and their alleged secret and esoteric knowledge (ooga booga!) remember when those dolts saw those ships off the coast way back in 1521 they were astounded by the white of the sails. And they thought that it was the Great White Visitation and the White Gods returning. They were correct, in a way, it was a visit from a vastly superior people who form their lowly standpoint might as well have been Gods from another planet. And you can bet that absent the Europeans they could have existed in their squalor and stasis for millions of years and never come up with the like. But now though their advance in learning has not budged an inch at least they are rolling in the dough.
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