A review by crippytay
We Survived the End of the World: Lessons from Native America on Apocalypse and Hope by Steven Charleston

“We are the axis point of apocalypse. The degree to which we participate in the apocalyptic process can tip the scales and determine the outcome. Therefore, our greatest problem is not necessarily the event itself but our reaction to it. Resignation is the challenge….Resignation dulls the mind. Like a narcotic it puts us into an ethical trance and leaves us immobilized in the face of danger. We watch wars come and go, dictators rise and fall, the poor struggle and die, imagining that this is the way it was meant to be, resigning ourselves to the role of spectators to our own demise rather than participants in our shared salvation.”

“The change from individualism to individuality, the finding of unity in diversity, is the vision we seek.”