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The aff forces native conformity to western ideals because it ignores the fundamental pillars of indigenous thought – by forcing indigneous thought to be animate it forces conformity to far-right ideals

Nodorada 23 Nodorada is an anonymous decolonial feminist communist (“Karl Marx and Radical Indigenous Critiques of Capitalism”, Cosmonaut Magazine, 2-10-2023, https://cosmonautmag.com/2023/02/karl-marx-and-radical-indigenous-critiques-of-capitalism/#easy-footnote-bottom-17-7405, DOA: 6/29/24)//LFS - LMH

Instead, they speak and act in favor of contingency as the site of oneness. There is oneness in abstraction, there is Being which is Nothing, and there is oneness in manyness, in rhythm, in Becoming. The “ontological difference” of the Nazi philosopher Martin Heidegger — between merely incidental and dependent beings and foundational Being — is alien to Indigenous thought. Indigenous thought concerns the being of beings rather than the Being of beings. As Cajete says: The Native American paradigm is comprised of and includes ideas of constant motion and flux, existence consisting of energy waves, interrelationships, all things being animate, space/place, renewal, and all things being imbued with spirit[…] The constant flux notion results in a ‘spider web’ network of relationships. In other words, everything is interrelated. If everything is interrelated, then all of creation is related. If human beings are animate and have spirit, then ‘all my relations’ must also be animate and must also have spirit. What Native Americans refer to as ‘spirit’ and energy waves are the same thing. Traditional Indigenous ways of thought are thinking and living in Becoming, not searching for any fundamental experience of Being. This informs Indigenous critiques of abstraction or otherworldliness brought by Westerners. That includes otherworldliness which claims to be being-in-the-world but shrinks away in disgust from the mundane — in Heidegger the inauthentic being of das Man — and excludes it from authentic Being.

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