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Dr Marimba Ani RBG-Dr Marimba Ani On the European Worldview / Quest for World Dominance
It's almost like we have been conditioned so well through such a long process that now it is us who are enslaving 'ourselves' 'mentally! ( because the job has already been) The job has been done! It would be so easy in one since for us to undo it.
That's what I'm saying in this book, Because the way the system of 'European' control works is that you have to accept a concept of reality,which makes them superior.' If you deny that,their thing will not work.' And they will lose their control.' So that they put all this energy into establishing this system that begin when you are 3 -4 and so forth' which defines reality in such a way where there's no 'spirit' because they aren't a spiritual people,you 'see' um... which talks about this,this objective truth and so forth' which says that um,African spirituality represents 'backwardness.
'So you need to move away from this,its does all these things which make you as an African person, me as an African person,'us' dis-'trust' that the very part of ourselves which is our 'strength.'( Questioner )Im going to get back to this question and that is,this whole question of do we know what we have lost?uh,do we realize that we have not always been democrats ,have not always been 'baptist' have not always been black Greeks' have not always been links,have not alway um, how do we conceive of ourselves in a different time?
(Dr Marimba Ani) I think that there is a lot being done um, within the movement of African centered education um,in that regard.In terms of I think we have more now information then we've ever had before. um and i have seen the effect of that information.'
That is very important that people do begin to realize and understand, first of all how young Europe is in relationship to Africa,and what we were putting into place' creating,building ,conceiving of um long before Europe 'existed' um,when you open peoples minds to that it can have a lot of 'POWER' so that I think that generally we have not understood that!
but we have an opportunity to do so,' because of the work of many People now' that is building on work that was done before that we didn't know about.(Listervelt Middleton ) Other cultures have exhibited aggression and imperialistic tendency,what accounts for Europe success ?( Listervelt Middleton) I'm glade you got to that question:)uh because what it allowed me to do i think is to get at uh what i think is the specialness of the approach,the method that i us um in this study' so its going to take me a little while,if that's ok.
I said to myself um and this was definitely with the help of the ancestors I want to affirm that by the way.That it was not' ( Listervelt Middleton) Why is that important? that's important because of our concept of connectedness' our concept of the universe' that it's not just words that talk of a spiritual universe.'
and our spirituality as a people,but we've got to understand um,where our energy comes from' and i know that's where mine came from' um,so this is ours' this belongs to us.'
I had to say how would I approach studying the European,giving African conceptions ' you see its one thing to say ok i want to do this but then you use their conceptions' what does it mean for us to really think' in African terms? and so what i did was to uh,develop concepts that came from an African world view' not a European world view.'
And i came up with the concept of 'Asili' I also used an African language that's a key swahili word' that means seed,origin' the essence of something.' The reason why that was important was because what people would say and they will say' oh Europe is so 'vast' it is um, there is so many different kinds of European uh, forms and different countries,how can you talk about Europe as a whole' now cause they have been talking about Europe as a whole all of this time' but when we begin to look at them suddenly its gonna to be no you can't do this because its to diverse .'
I needed a concept which um,could explain a culture in terms of its core' in terms of its ideological core' so that you could look at every different aspect of the culture and see how it fits into this one seed or core' that's why i use the Asili ' and the idea of the seed was that once that Asili is in place ,that cultural Asili that it will seek to fulfill itself ' so the way in which the culture will develop will all be feeding into that Asili,and that will help me to get at consistency in terms of Europeans development.'
What throws us' as a people is we make exceptions' you know we say on thats different over here and that, this is a good one over here' this doesn't really work that way ,but in my analysis ,its all consistent and its all working for one 'purpose.'
And the concept of Asili helps me to see that.' And that is that comes to the answer to your question,is that what i was able to do was see that the nature of the European Asili was to seek 'POWER' that it uh in essence is uh ,we can almost say it is an Asili which lack 'wholeness' and therefore must always ,Go back to YURUGU now,remember YURUGU' as the incomplete being ,that is always must be seeking' but can never be fulfilled ' because he can't get the complimentary part of himself .'
Their Asili ,the Asili,the European cultural Asili is incomplete 'must always be um,seeking. Now it can not be fulfilled through 'spirit' because it has no knowledge no relationship to spiritual reality' therefor fulfillment is sought through 'POWER' and power here means power over 'other.'
And what that means is that everything within the culture,all of the development in European culture all the forms,all the institutions, the ideas even,are all for the purpose of achieving 'EUROPEAN' POWER' Now your question was,if we can um,recognize that there has been um,'imperialistic behaviors in other cultures ,then what is the difference uh between European culture and these other cultures,and the answer is that Europeans have been most successful at achieving um,WORLD DOMINATION' BECAUSE EVERYTHING WITHIN THE CULTURE SUPPORTS THE QUEST FOR DOMINATION.'
( Listervelt Middleton EVERYTHING? )EVERYTHING ' INCLUDING AND MOST IMPORTANT TO ME IS THEIR philosophical concepts' INCLUDING THEIR CONCEPT OF 'TRUTH' INCLUDING THEIR ACADEMIES,ACADEMIA,THE INTELLECTUAL' INCLUDING THAT' IT WORKS FOR ,INCLUDING UH ' CHRISTIANITY'...... AS IT MANIFEST ITSELF' UH,YOU KNOW WITHIN THE EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENT.' ALL OF THAT WORKS FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT FOR EUROPEAN 'POWER.'
From the Glossary
Asili
The logos of a culture, within which its various aspects cohere. It is the developmental germ/seed of a culture. It is the cultural essence, the ideological core, the matrix of a cultural entity which must be identified in order to make sense of the collective creations of its members.
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It's almost like we have been conditioned so well through such a long process that now it is us who are enslaving 'ourselves' 'mentally! ( because the job has already been) The job has been done! It would be so easy in one since for us to undo it.
That's what I'm saying in this book, Because the way the system of 'European' control works is that you have to accept a concept of reality,which makes them superior.' If you deny that,their thing will not work.' And they will lose their control.' So that they put all this energy into establishing this system that begin when you are 3 -4 and so forth' which defines reality in such a way where there's no 'spirit' because they aren't a spiritual people,you 'see' um... which talks about this,this objective truth and so forth' which says that um,African spirituality represents 'backwardness.
'So you need to move away from this,its does all these things which make you as an African person, me as an African person,'us' dis-'trust' that the very part of ourselves which is our 'strength.'( Questioner )Im going to get back to this question and that is,this whole question of do we know what we have lost?uh,do we realize that we have not always been democrats ,have not always been 'baptist' have not always been black Greeks' have not always been links,have not alway um, how do we conceive of ourselves in a different time?
(Dr Marimba Ani) I think that there is a lot being done um, within the movement of African centered education um,in that regard.In terms of I think we have more now information then we've ever had before. um and i have seen the effect of that information.'
That is very important that people do begin to realize and understand, first of all how young Europe is in relationship to Africa,and what we were putting into place' creating,building ,conceiving of um long before Europe 'existed' um,when you open peoples minds to that it can have a lot of 'POWER' so that I think that generally we have not understood that!
but we have an opportunity to do so,' because of the work of many People now' that is building on work that was done before that we didn't know about.(Listervelt Middleton ) Other cultures have exhibited aggression and imperialistic tendency,what accounts for Europe success ?( Listervelt Middleton) I'm glade you got to that question:)uh because what it allowed me to do i think is to get at uh what i think is the specialness of the approach,the method that i us um in this study' so its going to take me a little while,if that's ok.
I said to myself um and this was definitely with the help of the ancestors I want to affirm that by the way.That it was not' ( Listervelt Middleton) Why is that important? that's important because of our concept of connectedness' our concept of the universe' that it's not just words that talk of a spiritual universe.'
and our spirituality as a people,but we've got to understand um,where our energy comes from' and i know that's where mine came from' um,so this is ours' this belongs to us.'
I had to say how would I approach studying the European,giving African conceptions ' you see its one thing to say ok i want to do this but then you use their conceptions' what does it mean for us to really think' in African terms? and so what i did was to uh,develop concepts that came from an African world view' not a European world view.'
And i came up with the concept of 'Asili' I also used an African language that's a key swahili word' that means seed,origin' the essence of something.' The reason why that was important was because what people would say and they will say' oh Europe is so 'vast' it is um, there is so many different kinds of European uh, forms and different countries,how can you talk about Europe as a whole' now cause they have been talking about Europe as a whole all of this time' but when we begin to look at them suddenly its gonna to be no you can't do this because its to diverse .'
I needed a concept which um,could explain a culture in terms of its core' in terms of its ideological core' so that you could look at every different aspect of the culture and see how it fits into this one seed or core' that's why i use the Asili ' and the idea of the seed was that once that Asili is in place ,that cultural Asili that it will seek to fulfill itself ' so the way in which the culture will develop will all be feeding into that Asili,and that will help me to get at consistency in terms of Europeans development.'
What throws us' as a people is we make exceptions' you know we say on thats different over here and that, this is a good one over here' this doesn't really work that way ,but in my analysis ,its all consistent and its all working for one 'purpose.'
And the concept of Asili helps me to see that.' And that is that comes to the answer to your question,is that what i was able to do was see that the nature of the European Asili was to seek 'POWER' that it uh in essence is uh ,we can almost say it is an Asili which lack 'wholeness' and therefore must always ,Go back to YURUGU now,remember YURUGU' as the incomplete being ,that is always must be seeking' but can never be fulfilled ' because he can't get the complimentary part of himself .'
Their Asili ,the Asili,the European cultural Asili is incomplete 'must always be um,seeking. Now it can not be fulfilled through 'spirit' because it has no knowledge no relationship to spiritual reality' therefor fulfillment is sought through 'POWER' and power here means power over 'other.'
And what that means is that everything within the culture,all of the development in European culture all the forms,all the institutions, the ideas even,are all for the purpose of achieving 'EUROPEAN' POWER' Now your question was,if we can um,recognize that there has been um,'imperialistic behaviors in other cultures ,then what is the difference uh between European culture and these other cultures,and the answer is that Europeans have been most successful at achieving um,WORLD DOMINATION' BECAUSE EVERYTHING WITHIN THE CULTURE SUPPORTS THE QUEST FOR DOMINATION.'
( Listervelt Middleton EVERYTHING? )EVERYTHING ' INCLUDING AND MOST IMPORTANT TO ME IS THEIR philosophical concepts' INCLUDING THEIR CONCEPT OF 'TRUTH' INCLUDING THEIR ACADEMIES,ACADEMIA,THE INTELLECTUAL' INCLUDING THAT' IT WORKS FOR ,INCLUDING UH ' CHRISTIANITY'...... AS IT MANIFEST ITSELF' UH,YOU KNOW WITHIN THE EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENT.' ALL OF THAT WORKS FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT FOR EUROPEAN 'POWER.'
From the Glossary
Asili
The logos of a culture, within which its various aspects cohere. It is the developmental germ/seed of a culture. It is the cultural essence, the ideological core, the matrix of a cultural entity which must be identified in order to make sense of the collective creations of its members.
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