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It is only bananas if you don't understand Maori culture. In Maori culture there is no such thing as absolute property right. Things are not ever really owned.
by lmilcin 5y ago
It is only bananas if you don't understand Maori culture.
In Maori culture there is no such thing as absolute property right. Things are not ever really owned. They are more like owned collectively and borrowed based on need.
Then western people came and gave them maori bosses couple trinkets which Maori thought is to borrow the property but westerners thought they are buying the property.
It is a bit complicated. You can read up on it in Francis's Fukuyama "The origins of political order"
- ratsforhorses 5y agoI remember one Maori telling me "it's your house, but it (all) our land..." which seems like a perfect antidote to the capitalistic cancer of printing free money, giving it to (unethical) corporations and letting them gobble up so much space that we're homeless...ofc it doesn't quite work that way either
- Y_Y 5y agoI think information and land have salient differences. It's not fair to say that I must be wrong because I just don't "get it".
- te_chris 5y agoBut you clearly don’t get it, as your many posts in here show. Maori ideas of custodianship are wildly different: https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/2544-understanding-kaitiakitanga https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/2544-understanding...