Recommended Resource
Hospicing Modernity and Rehabilitating Humanity
This interview with Vanessa Andreotti (more recently known at Vanessa Machado De Oliveira) moved me to my core. She embodies profound insights, an infectious energy, and a deep connection to our indigenous roots. The most profound moment in the conversation for me was when she shares a story linking back to one of her ancestors. While talking about our deep interconnectedness with the web of life, she says…
The core trauma of colonization was not the taking of the land and the killing of the people. The core trauma was to convince us that we were separable.
During this conversation she also shares what she calls as our Four Anchoring Denials:
- The complicity, violence, and exploitation that make our lifestyles possible.
- That sustainability and infinite growth are somehow compatible.
- Our entanglement with the web of life and the fact that we are not separate entities but are part of the metabolism of the planet.
- The depth and magnitude of the challenges we are facing.
This interview is a fantastic introduction to Vanessa’s work as well as a great insight how we might get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.
In Their Words…
In this episode, Nate is joined by educator and researcher Vanessa Andreotti to discuss what she calls “hospicing modernity” in order to move beyond the world we’ve come to know and the failed promises that “modernity” has made to our current culture. Whether you refer to it as the metacrisis, the polycrisis, or – in Nate’s terms – the human predicament, Vanessa brings a unique framing rooted in indigenous knowledge and relationality to aid in understanding, grieving, and building emotional resilience within this space.