Russell McOrmond 🧠🌈♾ (Old)

@pathfinder

Human societies being made up of humans does not automatically lead to #Anthropcentrism.

For example, Anishinaabe worldviews put humans as below the rest of creation rather than above.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/16094069231185454

"All of Creation is connected and reliant upon one another, though humans are arguably the most dependent species having been created after all else according to Anishinaabe Creation stories."

Hebrew Book of Genesis promotes #Androcentrism and #Anthropocentrism

Dec 4, 2023 at 11:32pmWeb
Show threadRussell McOrmond 🧠🌈♾ (Old)Dec 4, 2023

@pathfinder

I know Western society tends to want to think of itself as secular, but much of Capitalism and other European economic theories are built upon Christian Worldviews and origin stories.

What will be deemed worthy of being seen as valuable and what isn't will be rooted in those worldviews and origin stories.

A past thought experiment: https://mcormond.blogspot.com/2021/03/origin-story.html

I also read: https://daanis.ca/becoming-kin2/

Were Adam and Eve voted off the Island?

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