The Importance of Deep Listening

In the eighties in Australia, there was a really important part of the kind of Aboriginal Land Rights Movement where these elders, particularly from North West Australia, stood up and started talking about ideas like deep listening. And they're saying we've been trying to give you this the whole time. You don't have it for whatever reason you don't have deep listening or two way thinking. It's not just the erasure of agency of the spirit world which is again as you say, reinforcement of like the materials naturalist idea that would make the whole project of trying to learn from others, pointless anyway. But in every single case I can find because I've just I've gone through it for