Monday, April 18, 2011
Making Amends
As Bolivia's foreign minister observes, everything today is in crisis because our lives are out of balance. In order to achieve harmony, he notes, indigenous knowledge must be heard and respected. After being forced down wrong roads by Europeans for five centuries, Bolivia's indigenous peoples are recovering their principles, values and codes. Those codes hold the key for restoring balance, but their success hinges on the willingness of European peoples to make amends for the crises they have caused, a question that has yet to be sufficiently answered and acted upon.
