https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Rainbow_Warriors

There was a controversy on a friend’s wall regarding ‘The Rainbow Warrior Prophecy’. My friend claimed it was deceptive and insulting, the original poster defended the meme and ‘its spirit”. Others claimed it was harmless either way. But memes are never harmless. Ever. They compromise and redirect our attention, concern, belief and awareness. When this is being done for purposes that are wrong, deleterious, or crippling, the results are catastrophic and become more severe over time.

So, what about ‘The Warriors of the Rainbow’ meme?

Our social cultures are aswarm with ‘fakelore’ that is neither true nor harmless, but is highly contagious due to having pretentiously aggrandized either science, nature, the divine, or ‘ancient peoples’. The purpose is not education or a call to action, but rather to counterfeit those in such a way as to render either one impossible. The actual result of human exposure to mimetic media objects is simple: the attention acquired is leveraged to encourage the subject to reproduce the content or object.

So we become reproductive organs for media objects.

This particular meme is actually just a deceptive »advertising object that has nothing to do with anything indigenous at all. To promote it is not unlike pretending that Red Indian motor oil is an indigenous spirit product. The language itself should be an obvious sign that this is not anything a native person said or even might have said. The actual result of its common propagation, celebration and wild copying is to compromise the dignity and character of our peoples and the indigenous peoples for the sake of popularizing a deception.

This is not a call to action. No one who ever heard this did this. They posted it a lot though. Hundreds of thousands of times. Instead of doing anything human, intelligent, aware, or active. Instead of doing anything at all.

Defending memes is a behavior that, while somehow appearing to be some kind of activism, is actually a social disease that encourages if not demands stridently self-assured ignorance in the service of inactivity.

We must together develop the necessary social and relational intelligence to formally and openly recognize attention-cons that promise enlightenment or liberty and deliver ignorance and slavery dressed up as an ‘amazing divine thing’. We have to be willing to simply stop and ask ourselves if the billions of data objects we copy are not primarily a disease. And we must recognize and announce it when they are.

The entire history of this topic is a seething lie. It has »nothing to do with indigenous »anything, and is no more ‘prophetic’ than the insurance quote I received in the mail this morning that urged me to ‘save $100’ by ‘helping a friend to see the light’.