The paradox of all things Colonial is that they involve movement, change, conquest, and ultimately, revolution. Conversely, the lack of change, such as the acquisition of land through inheritance, is considered to embody the ideal of "the good" in non-Colonial societies. Change is evil: Satanic. This is something that shamans who resisted colonization were able to sense, for they were already in the realm of change, and just had to take it some steps further; to push the process beyond the comfort levels of their masters.
Shamanism is the opposite to Kantianism. Instead of the the rule of morality being based on abstraction, the drive towards freedom is based on spontaneity/impulse.
The power invoked here is in the instability of matter, or in terms of Bataille, "Base Materialism".
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