RESISTING THE MONOCULTURE OF MIND: AN ODE TO INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE
Keywords:
Complexity, Cognitive Democracy, Indigenous KnowledgeAbstract
Dialoguing with authors from different fields of knowledge, we argue for the necessity of an ode to
indigenous knowledge. The establishment of a monoculture of mind with a universalistic ideological
tendency has been exterminating the possibility of humanity to benefit from the interchange and sharing
of knowledge and experiences acquired by different peoples of the Planet. The hegemony of the market
logic overlaps immeasurable values such as cooperation, solidarity, collective gratitude, and kinship with
everything in the world. Such values are present in the ancient wisdom that establishes the matrix of a
first science. They also preserve codes of knowledge and ways of living that may become a reference to solve problems faced by modern societies. Faced by this scenario, the dialogue with those traditional
cosmologies would be an ethical attitude to be taken by an open science. A necessary cognitive
democracy, the base for a political democracy and social justice, can be achieved by an ecology of ideas.
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