I think that unless you have the ability to disregard the opinions of other people when they want to pressure you to fall in line, social media will continue to be toxic for you. You may just not be a person for whom web2.0 is ever going to be helpful. And that's okay, there's other things to do and be and ways to help the world that are not on the doomscrollable parts of social media.
As to our ancestors, we may only have reclaiming/reconstructivist traditions of colonized ancestors, but we can build new kinds of culture out of those bones. We can look to modern indigenous cultures for their anthropological views on ways to create forms of socializing, attitudes, assumptions, values: all the visible and invisible building blocks that make up a culture. It won't be the same as it would have been if our ancestral culture descended unchanged from pre-Roman times, but we're not fundamentally inhuman or unworthy for having been raised in colonized cultures. All the pieces we need are around here somewhere. So we're going to do what we can with what we have. And I feel like that's going to be good enough.
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As to our ancestors, we may only have reclaiming/reconstructivist traditions of colonized ancestors, but we can build new kinds of culture out of those bones. We can look to modern indigenous cultures for their anthropological views on ways to create forms of socializing, attitudes, assumptions, values: all the visible and invisible building blocks that make up a culture. It won't be the same as it would have been if our ancestral culture descended unchanged from pre-Roman times, but we're not fundamentally inhuman or unworthy for having been raised in colonized cultures. All the pieces we need are around here somewhere. So we're going to do what we can with what we have. And I feel like that's going to be good enough.