Collectively, academics are too nice, except among each other. Over-intellectualizing reality is a way to be nice and demonstrate allegiance with loosely affiliated political tribes across professions beyond the academy. The team concept, better applied to solving evolving problem sets of integrated global and multi-global challenges is how we can all best flourish within the ever-present reality of a brutal universe.1 This approach requires a common athletic mindset or physical awareness including controlled aggression, tempered by well-prepared minds and all souls united – past, present and future.2
“Settler colonialism” when spoken or read alienates the non-academic human majority. As there is a recognized overlap with genocide and colonialism,3 “genocide” is clearer to the ear and eye. For the general United States population, “colonialism” is not recognizable in self-reference as it might be descriptive of the U.S. for most of the human population. The U.S. is self-defined as the ultimate repellent of world history’s largest empire, the British Empire and over time becoming the hope of the world relative to other concurrent major powers of which it became the hegemon for almost one human lifetime after World War II. However, the past reality of genocide along with slavery is accepted as a dual foundation of the U.S among her citizens. A few sadists see this dual foundation as an achievement upon which to build while most regard it as shameful, in my non-academic view.4
By materialism in the title above, I mean the orientation of mercantilism, capitalism and/or socialism around accumulation and distribution of goods and services, however achieved, to serve a sense of stability bordering on restrictive permanence as the purpose of individual and collective human life – “success” as used rhetorically in the colloquial. Given the space age (1954-present), a positively synergistic “neo-nomadicism” across the solar system and beyond is possible and I argue a preferable organizing principle for perpetual human existence without the leash of artificial scarcity-based economic structures.5
REFERENCES
1. Martin A. Schwab, Prospects for Collaborative Power in a Brutal Universe, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Hawaii, 2012. https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/f71abd7c-66fb-4d25-898f-e61f357cc386/content. Retrieved May 15, 2025.
2. “Monty Python’s world cup team of philosophers,” Lonnie Goldman. Posted June 18, 2026 (2:29): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjV9eZzNs2g. Retrieved June 23, 2026.
3. See third paragraph under “Definition and concept” section of “Settler colonialism,” Wikipedia, webpage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settler_colonialism. See also, “Colonialism and genocide,” Wikipedia, webpage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonialism_and_genocide. Both retrieved June 19, 2026.
4. This view is based on numerous discussions between the ages of 21 through 35 (1993-2008) over domestic and international beers and whiskeys in multiple U.S. states across the Great Lakes region.
5. See Suebi/Suevi tribe as an example from my own ethnography based on my surname, Schwab of what I regard as still possible as universal life purpose for a positively synergistic human experience among all eight billion humans and growing across the cosmos, always inclusive of the Earth-moon system: “Suebi,” Wikipedia, webpage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suebi. Retrieved July 4, 2026.
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