"It should be easy, now, to understand the destitution of
indigenous, oral persons who have been forcibly displaced from their
traditional lands. The local earth is, for them, the very matrix of
discursive meaning; to force them from their native ecology (for
whatever political or economic purpose) is to render them speechless--or
to render their speech meaningless--TO DISLODGE THEM FROM THE VERY
GROUND OF COHERENCE. It is, quite simply, to force them out of their
mind."
David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous.
