https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTdgxhQwaVQ
“They say barbwire was the death knell of the cowboy. It was the end of
the open range and the end of open pastures. Before the cowboys, for
time immemorial, the indigenous peoples of the Americas looked to the
earth as their spiritual authority. They did not parcel the earth any
more than Christians, Muslims, or the Jewish faith would parcel out God.
That would be sacrilege. But along came the colonists and they did just
that. After the genocide of the indigenous peoples, once our white
picket fences and barbwire and border walls were erected, the ancestors
of the colonists made a lot of technological progress. We invented cars,
skyscrapers, cheeseburgers, and smartphones! And yet now, at the dawn of
the 21st century, mother earth is reacting to the past few hundred years
of neglect. The earth is sending out pandemics, fires, hurricanes, and
so on. The indigenous say that it’s the earth’s immune system
calibrating itself. The indigenous people of the Americas, and the rest
of the world, have stewarded their sacred planet for tens of thousands
of years of recorded history—likely more. The PTM Foundation turns a
conscious heart to the ancestral youth of the indigenous elders to
shepherd our sacred planet and peoples through this time of difficulty.
The PTM Foundation is a platform for artistic collaboration between
materialist culture, the arts, and indigenous paradigms. For the video
for “Who’s Gonna Stop Me” we created a collaboration between indigenous
artists, friends, artistic collaborators, ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic, and
Indigenous organizations to explore the possibilities of collaboration
in this new time. To us ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic has always been a figure of
playful boundary-breaking. His work makes us take less seriously, the
things that we take so seriously, like what’s cool, or what’s trendy.
‘Weird Al’ Yankovic has been an inspiration for Portugal The Man since
their inception until now. In the tradition of the indigenous cultures
of the western North American territories, the Coyote represents the
trickster and the maker of new worlds. The trickster is an archetype
that can be found in nearly all indigenous and ancient cultures; the
trickster not only is playful and a comedian but through their
playfulness, they connect people. PTM Foundation sees music and art as a
similar tool to make new connections and we consider this video to be
the beginning of a campaign of many collaborations to come. PTM
Foundation strives to forge bridges between the materialist contemporary
culture in which we are immersed and the indigenous stewards to whom we
strive to give a larger voice.”
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
