From unbekoming @ substack
via earthsbloodstains
Rebranding, renaming, covering up …isn’t that what ‘they’ do best? This is an essay I consider to be right on the nail. It weaves together the narratives (aka lies) that have been spun to indigenous peoples in order to gain access to their lands and resources. By stealth. These narratives we’ve known in part but stitched together here they give us a view of the whole picture … the intent, the modus operandi and the finished product. The most recent narrative of course being the covid plandemic …
Throughout history, power has perfected a singular deception: creating elaborate narratives to disguise systematic resource extraction as benevolent intervention. From the Irish countryside to Indian provinces, from modern medical systems to digital workplaces, the pattern remains constant. Empire identifies or creates a crisis, offers a solution that requires surrendering autonomy, then extracts resources while victims thank them for their help. These narratives of extraction don’t simply steal physical resources—they colonize time itself, transform health into commodity, destroy reproductive autonomy, and reshape human consciousness to accept exploitation as liberation.
The genius of these narratives lies in their moral inversions. Starvation becomes a population problem rather than food theft. Poverty becomes underdevelopment rather than systematic impoverishment. Disease becomes individual failure rather than manufactured illness. Women’s exhaustion becomes oppression by motherhood rather than capitalism’s demand for doubled labor. Each narrative transforms resistance into pathology, making those who refuse the “solution” appear backward, ignorant, or dangerous.
What makes modern extraction narratives particularly insidious is their totalizing nature. Where colonial powers once had to use visible force, today’s systems of extraction operate through manufactured consent.
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