Nake Nula Wauŋ Welo

This mysterious piece dated July 2016 appears in a copy I’d saved on an external hard drive with no further explanation. I haven’t been able to trace any comments and suspect it was never published before.

Nake Nula Wauŋ Welo

We are Lawful. We Do. We Make. We Be. We are developing infrastructure to renew the Lakotah Nation. We are dreamers. We are Wicasa. We are the roots, the trunk, the limbs and the leaf of the tree. Ohecetu.

This thing called Brexit arouses across the globe a fascination which will endure for the rest of history. The perturbations it arouses are most strong at its epicentre, the district of London called Westminster, which gives its name to the seat of government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It was an earthquake in the noösphere, a man-made accident.

Noösphere: The part of the biosphere occupied by thinking humanity; spec. (with reference to the writing of P. Teilhard de Chardin) a stage or sphere of evolutionary development characterized by (the emergence or dominance of) consciousness, the mind, and interpersonal relationships, postulated as following the stage of the establishment of human life.

I call it an accident not in the sense of a clumsy slip but an unintended result, the culmination of a series of actions, millions of them, individually countable, each deliberate, whose combined outcome could not be predicted and whose result was unexpected and shocking. But then, according to cosmologists, physicists and evolutionary biologists (assuming them to be atheists), we owe our very existence to accidents, with no guidance from Intelligent Design.

What is Nake Nula Waun Welo? Google tells us this:

“Nake nula wauŋ welo!” – misunderstood as “today is a good day to die…” – Actually this Sioux war cry is grossly misunderstood – it means literally “I am ready for whatever may come.” It is optimism in the face if overwhelming pessimism or odds – a zen sense of acceptance of fate without abdication accompanied with a will to fight to the end. This phrase spoke to me this week… I hope by sharing it may help you. Don’t worry about me friends, I’m ok and believe me I will fight to the very very end. – Peace