So the article doesn’t cover Mesoamerican areas which is weird that they’ll use the term “Native American” and have the term stop applying past the Rio Grande.
I didn’t read much into it at first, as that seems “normal” if they were a US based org, so I went to look up who they are (were), and it turns out they were a Koch funded climate change denial group!
I won’t go into it more than that to not derail the actual decent talk coming out of this. It is part of the reason I normally don’t talk about this topic though. There are many cultures who have negative associations with owls, different African and Indian (as in the country of India) people will kill owls due to beliefs of them being bad, and while I don’t believe killing them is right, I didn’t have enough cultural awareness to speak much about it in a way fair to the people so I just shut up usually.
From all I’ve seen of the Meso American owl content, that feels more reverent rather than negative, but that’s why I was hoping you were around, both to represent some of the other American beliefs, and because you have undoubtedly better cultural context than I do, so I didn’t want to mess anything up if you were available to comment instead.
Being able to call you in for this made me feel like I have some special insider to call in for the situation like when they call in some obscure expert on Pawn Stars or the like. “Let me call my Meso American owl expert to see what they say!” 😆
who was said to be (unlike Anon6789) a malevolent shapeshifter being possessed by the more sinister spirits and forces of the cosmos.
I didn’t read much into it at first, as that seems “normal” if they were a US based org, so I went to look up who they are (were), and it turns out they were a Koch funded climate change denial group!
Who Is the Environmental Literacy Council?
I won’t go into it more than that to not derail the actual decent talk coming out of this. It is part of the reason I normally don’t talk about this topic though. There are many cultures who have negative associations with owls, different African and Indian (as in the country of India) people will kill owls due to beliefs of them being bad, and while I don’t believe killing them is right, I didn’t have enough cultural awareness to speak much about it in a way fair to the people so I just shut up usually.
From all I’ve seen of the Meso American owl content, that feels more reverent rather than negative, but that’s why I was hoping you were around, both to represent some of the other American beliefs, and because you have undoubtedly better cultural context than I do, so I didn’t want to mess anything up if you were available to comment instead.
Being able to call you in for this made me feel like I have some special insider to call in for the situation like when they call in some obscure expert on Pawn Stars or the like. “Let me call my Meso American owl expert to see what they say!” 😆
Yeah, I am much more chaotic neutral. 😉