Steven Newcomb: Native nations still under dominating process

A little-noticed definition of “civilization” is this: “the forcing of a particular cultural pattern on a population to whom it is foreign.” The key word is “forcing,” which implies some agency that engages in the process of forcing a particular cultural pattern on a population or nation.

The forcible imposition is called “the civilizing process.” The process of forcible imposition stems from a system of domination that is disguised as something called “civilization,” which is a euphemism (a nice sounding word for something negative) for “domination.”

The mission of forcible imposition is also called “the mission,” as in “the Spanish Catholic Mission system.” The entire system by which the forcible imposition is inflicted on free nations has been typically called “the mission system.” It operates by means of specific techniques, and in specific phases.

First, invade a place where free nations are living. Second, capture the people living in that place. Third, vanquish the people living in that place by breaking their spirit of resistance so that you can subdue them. To subdue them means to force them to submit to and become interwoven into a system in which they are conditioned to pay, pray, and obey, without question.