#5 Tyson Yunkaporta — Change Your Ways Or Face Obliteration

Tyson Yunkaporta is an Australian academic, poet, carver of traditional tools and weapons, and member of the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland He is a senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University in Melbourne, and the author of the book ‘Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World’.  

In this evocative conversation we explore how we can embrace diverse narratives as part of a collective worldview, how story and dialogue can offer pathways to healing and deeper understanding of our human culture..

- The existential threat of the domestication of humans as akin to “feedlot pigs.”

- Significance of yarning in human culture.

- Building relationships and trust as a way to help us imagine the world we want to live in.

- How we’ve diverged from this law of the land and how memory, story and connection to place can bring us back.

- How fostering space for “organic emergence” is one of the most important things we can do in facing the problems of our world today.

- The illusory nature of ‘hope,’ and what attitudes can actually help us at this time.

To learn more about Tyson’s work read his book: Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World.

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