The problem is not that things change. Things do change. We could even say things evolve. Nor is the problem the impulse to transform. Transformation is not inherently evil. The horror here is the colonialist’s denial of the voice and vision of peoples who inhabit a place, denial that defies the logic of life together in a place as the basic wisdom that should shape change and transformation. The horror here is the emergence of a form of creating that destroys creation. This is not the logic of breaking eggs to make omelets, recognizing that some destruction is always inherent in creation.
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