andyb1968 wrote:
Didn't Brian work on some music for a documentary about the native Americans, back in the 90's I think ? But it never saw the light of day !
Really?
I'd never heard of that. (but I was so damn young in the 90's how could I have?)
A lot of projects revolving around Indigenous People in the 'Americas' gets shoved out and shoveled upon. People generally either don't wish to finance what can ignorantly be viewed as "America bashing" when it comes to accounting the hostility, brazen contempt for laws and treaties (Treaties can only be made with Independent NATIONS according to the Constitution)
the reality is that a really thorough examination would reveal much of the US had never been legally seceded.
Legal arguments of Inauthenticity, broken laws and generally DURESS could easily discount many measures done.
That's something I'd heard from a man in the film industry. He's mentioned how many times his projects have been looked upon well, but his "pet" projects (things close to heart) are dismissed with contempt. He'd mentioned names like John Carpenter, J. Cameron, etc.
It's not popular to rock the boat.
One hand washes the other, and it's important for the hierarchy to retain their presence by poor management of education and poor disposition of discussions like that.
Currently there IS a "native based" channel over here in SoCAL.... but I don't have it. it's based on channel KVCR2 -20 locally.
It's not something that is generally discussed. Fair comparisons could be made to the treatment of the Nazi Empire after the collapse of the Third Reich and the U.S. refusal to acknowledge it's own debt to peonage, pillage, and lawless financial support of genocide.
We can go and preach about how bad the Nazi's were, but hold little place for discussing the actual way the continent was conquered. Myths and films can do more damage.
Particularly the notion prevalent to a generation before that indigenous people were somehow subhuman. ..Phrenology, Eugenics (practiced firstly in the USA on poor white rural adolescents) all that stuff was a driving post for Hitler's notion that 'might is right' and that the US did well on its own, and never succumbed to criticism for its practices.
It was common to a few past generations to suggest (to the commoner) that "Indians" had no language, no culture, no society and didn't even practice cleanliness. (debatable to Europe as well)
That's in Mein Kampf. Anyways, long discussion that's due but doesn't get its accorded representation in national history books.
Its a nationalistic scope which hinders consideration. Plenty of people graduate in the States with no knowledge of self, or society, or history or culture.
It's not everywhere, and education isn't completely the responsibility of the society, but it IS the responsibility of an intelligent society. There are far too many consequences of misguided learning.
Just look at this Kardashian culture.... the fact that even in the information age, there are only two (truly) potential political parties that can generate decisions in the House and Congress.
Anyways, that's my soapbox rant off of the notion.
Back to the start:
I never even knew Brian had any involvement with a project like that.
Plenty of artists choose to participate in small "art" projects. Bless him for giving it a shot.
Possible proof that in today's day and age a conscience does more than just hurt.
it's a crazy crappy era for the major arts. the Lowest common denominator. low standards over here...particularly regarding culture
