Nake Nula Waun Welo

We are Lawful. We Do. We Make. We Be. We are
developing infrastructure to renew the Lakotah
Nation. We are dreamers. We are Wicasa. We are
the roots, the trunk, the limbs and the leaf of
the tree. Ohecetu.

[Written on July 6th, 2016]

This thing called Brexit arouses across the globe a fascination which will endure for the rest of history. The perturbations it arouses are most strong at its epicentre, the district of London called Westminster, which gives its name to the seat of government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It was an earthquake in the noösphere, a man-made accident.

Noösphere: The part of the biosphere occupied by thinking humanity; spec. (with reference to the writing of P. Teilhard de Chardin) a stage or sphere of evolutionary development characterized by (the emergence or dominance of) consciousness, the mind, and interpersonal relationships, postulated as following the stage of the establishment of human life.

I call it an accident in one of its everyday senses: not a clumsy slip so much as an unintended result, the culmination of a series of actions, millions of them, individually countable, each sincere and deliberate, whose combined outcome could not be predicted and whose result was unexpected and shocking. As cosmologists, physicists and evolutionary biologists will surely agree, we owe our very existence to accidents, without the intervention of Intelligent Design.