I am so disillusioned...

The Roman Catholic statesman Noah, Chief Seattle, made a speech in 1854. That speech was transcribed and embellished from incomplete notes 33 years later, and further added to (the parts that everyone quotes) in the 60s, culminating in the "canonical version" in the eco-propaganda film Home in 1971. And thus the Chief has become posthumously a great philosopher, while the thrust of his original speech is, "Guys, they're offering us money for our land...which is pretty generous, because they can just take it anyway...so lets go along to get along."

Funny how this never gets quoted though:
"But why should we repine? Why should I murmur at the fate of my people? Tribes are made up of individuals and are no better than they."
The source of my disillusionment, linked by Bidinotto.

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