Our community group has been studying buen vivir for months but we're all non-indigenous people and there's this unspoken tension about appropriation versus genuine learning. Half of us think we should be applying these teachings to our climate activism and the other half worry we're just extracting indigenous knowledge for our own purposes, and we can't have an honest conversation about it.
More people experience this than they realize.
A group genuinely seeking wisdom finds itself paralyzed by the very extraction dynamics they're trying to understand and heal.
“Where Are You with Buen Vivir — Latin American indigenous worldview and technology?”
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