Then in that case land would be really your problem, not "colonialism", is it not?
I'm just saying to focus on what's the actual problem and reduce all the other things that are not. Don't suffer more than what you have to suffer is all I'm trying to say.
This is why I talked about Buddhism as opposition to other "victimhood" narratives. Because there's plenty to be angry about but that doesn't solve our/your actual problem.
Will arguing with me help solve your actual problem also? Perhaps not. That's all I'm trying to say. We should focus on the issue, not dwell on suffering. Create the alternative we want to see in the world.
I do agree on thinking about the "real issue" or the "root cause". I do understand that a person can use victimhood to obtain resources and cope with real life. At the individual level it can be a limiting belief that can be addressed with a change of attitude, or an expansion of self-consciousness. But here we are talking about the collective level. When you see an entire cast/race/country can't lift themselves, despite being told ther individual outcome is the product of their individual effort (mith of meritocracy) and despite having the same human capacity on average, you may suspect that there is a systematic effort to kept them like that. Then the root cause to address is the system.
Land is only the example of why not having food to eat is not an attitude problem but a real resource constrain. But beyond food a modern society produces other products and services for which you also need tools, factories and other stuff that generates value. That's what someone called "means of production". Some people say that controlling means of production vs not controlling them is the root cause of being rich vs being poor. You know were I'm going...
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