Being Indigenous After the Trump Apocalypse

Also Sprach Zarathustra published in four parts between 1883 and 1891 and in that tome Friedrich Nietzsche brought the news that “God is dead!” It was during that publication when the shooting part of the Indian wars spewed leaden death from the Hotchkiss guns at Wounded Knee Creek and declared victory.

Few Indians read German philosophy at the time but they did not need Nietzsche to tell them their medicine had lost efficacy. The settlers were innocent of God’s demise as well and it remained for a man named Hitler to mainstream the news.

The argument was never that God was a literal being no longer among the living. It merely described a consequence of The Age of Enlightenment, when infinity has become finite. One size of moral clothing no longer fits all and we shall all become tailors or go naked.

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