Interview · South Dakota · Kevin Locke · OSEU 2
Themes: Healing & resilience, Values & generosity, Community & responsibility, Listening & observation, Children & young people
Learn About questions
What is resilience?
What causes a loss of resilience with age?
In what ways is the pace of change accelerating in your world?
What does research tell us about the impact of the televised news cycle on US consumers/viewers?
What are the forces of disintegration?
What are the forces of integration?
Why might the media focus more on negative aspects concerning tribal people rather than positive ones?
Learn From questions
What have you noticed about your own resilience or ability to adapt to change even after tough situations or experiences? Have you become more or less resilient with time?
What changes have you seen during your lifetime so far that have presented challenges? What changes have you seen that you have gladly welcomed?
Has watching news about tragic world events impacted you? In what ways?
Do you tend to be a bringer of “good news” or of “bad news” around others? Do you see yourself as an agent of integration or of disintegration?
How do you balance seeing the positive with being realistic about the struggles?
Transcripts
Forces of Disintegration and Integration - Kevin Locke - OSEU #2
Watch this interview on YouTubeThese little children…they’re very resilient. You can see how malleable they are. We’re all that way. But of course as we get older, we become less resilient. I think this is a wonderful quality that we can retain, this resiliency. It’s a coping skill that the native people demonstrated very well…as far as adapting to different changes. Of course, we need that now more than ever because…we are at the stage of the greatest change in the history of mankind. Everything is accelerating. We can see this parallel process happening in the world. We can see there are forces of disintegration which are escalating. And this is what our attention…our attention is continuously drawn to that. You turn on CNN…every twenty minutes it rehashes these conditions in the world. And it must have an effect on people, even children.
If all you see is this social collapse, all this political anarchy, all this violence, all of this stuff… this is the…signs of the escalation of the forces of disintegration in the world. But at the same time…it doesn’t get a lot of airplay…we’re also at a stage…forces of integration are escalating. So that’s what we have to do…we have to have the resiliency and the willpower to consciously shift and align ourselves with those forces of integration and all of these good things that are happening…build community and to encourage the youth…And these things are present.
Like you go…for instance, in South Dakota…you travel outside of South Dakota, people are like “Oh you must be from Pine Ridge.” Because that is all they hear. It’s like the worst place. And all the media focuses on that…all this bad stuff. But there are so many good things going on there that you don’t hear about. So this is what we have to do…I’m not saying you have to turn a deaf ear or a blind eye to all of this…it’s present. But it should only serve to redouble our efforts…to align ourselves…and to support positive things that are going on.
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OSEU 2: INTERVIEW WITH KEVIN LOCKE
WoLakota Project
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Forces of Disintegration & Integration
Kevin Locke
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Forces of Disintegration & Integration
Forces of Disintegration and Integration - Kevin Locke
- OSEU #2
These little children…they’re very resilient. You can see how malleable they are. We’re
all that way. But of course as we get older, we become less resilient. I think this is a
wonderful quality that we can retain, this resiliency. It’s a coping skill that the native
people demonstrated very well…as far as adapting to different changes. Of course, we
need that now more than ever because…we are at the stage of the greatest change in
the history of mankind. Everything is accelerating. We can see this parallel process
happening in the world. We can see there are forces of disintegration which are
escalating. And this is what our attention…our attention is continuously drawn to that.
You turn on CNN…every twenty minutes it rehashes these conditions in the world. And
it must have an effect on people, even children.
If all you see is this social collapse, all this political anarchy, all this violence, all of this
stuff… this is the…signs of the escalation of the forces of disintegration in the world. But
at the same time…it doesn’t get a lot of airplay…we’re also at a stage…forces of
integration are escalating. So that’s what we have to do…we have to have the resiliency
and the willpower to consciously shift and align ourselves with those forces of
integration and all of these good things that are happening…build community and to
encourage the youth…And these things are present.
Like you go…for instance, in South Dakota…you travel outside of South Dakota, people
are like “Oh you must be from Pine Ridge.” Because that is all they hear. It’s like the
worst place. And all the media focuses on that…all this bad stuff. But there are so many
good things going on there that you don’t hear about. So this is what we have to
do…I’m not saying you have to turn a deaf ear or a blind eye to all of this…it’s present.
But it should only serve to redouble our efforts…to align ourselves…and to support
positive things that are going on.