Chief Maquinna of the Nootkas did not see the world dynamic in a producer-product LOCAL SOURCING context, but saw humans as humanings within the Great Harmony. Meanwhile, immersion in the Great Harmony aka the transforming relational continuum aka the Wave-field, is ineffable-because-nonlocal.  In this understanding, because there is nothing LOCAL, there is no ATTRIBUTION of actions and developments since ATTRIBUTION is the inferring of a LOCAL SOURCE.

“ATTRIBUTION” — the action of regarding something as being caused by a person or thing.

In indigenous aboriginal (Potlatch) society, NON-ATTRIBUTION prevails as naturally associates with NONLOCALITY.

“Once I was in Victoria, and I saw a very large house; they told me it was a bank and that the white men place their money there to take care of, and that by-and-by they got it back, with interest. We are Indians and have no such bank; but when we have plenty of money or blankets, we give them away to other chiefs and people, and by-and-by they return them, with interest, and our hearts feel good. Our potlatch is our bank.” [for the full letter and associated context (jailing of first nations people for continuing with the potlatch tradition) see ‘First People First Voices’, edited by Penny Petrone, University of Toronto Press, 1991]

ATTRIBUTION is foundational to the WESTERN CULTURE social system which ‘rewards good’ and ‘punishes bad’.  This assumes that there are ‘good actions and developments’ that can be ATTRIBUTED to specific individuals and ‘bad actions and developments’ that can be ATTRIBUTED to specific individuals.  This is not supported by modern physics nor by indigenous aboriginal cultures, Taoism/Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta, all of which understand reality as inclusion in a transforming relational continuum.

There can be no ATTRIBUTION in a transforming relational continuum.  ATTRIBUTION comes into being by the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR; e.g. FIRE BURNS!  John Wilkes Booth kills Abraham Lincoln.

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