Thank you for your detailed reply and I hope you’re successfully able to find the “right” guy. It’s remarkable to me that Hawaii isn’t more egalitarian/mutualistic given how isolated it is - but considering you can still get tons of stuff 2-day primed (on Oahu at least) I guess that isolation doesn’t seem as real as it used to.
I mean it is (egalitarian/mutualistic; being pono; understanding ones kuleana), but its also only a bit more than a hundred years out from being directly stolen in an oligarchial1 coup from the Hawaiian people. And considering how much so the impacts of slavery still influence other states politics, it shouldn’t be that surprising that this history still impacts our politics very strongly, especially considering that effectively, the oligarchs that took over the kingdom, are still in power.
And thats kind of what I’m saying. Ed Case is wide open to this critique considering that his family basically moved here to serve the post-coup, and then eventually, territorial government.
So there is real narrative power here, and the zeitgeist is primed. Just need to find the right candidate.
1: Liluakolani used the word oligarch to describe the Missionary party (and Dole specifically) in 1898
Thank you for your detailed reply and I hope you’re successfully able to find the “right” guy. It’s remarkable to me that Hawaii isn’t more egalitarian/mutualistic given how isolated it is - but considering you can still get tons of stuff 2-day primed (on Oahu at least) I guess that isolation doesn’t seem as real as it used to.
I mean it is (egalitarian/mutualistic; being pono; understanding ones kuleana), but its also only a bit more than a hundred years out from being directly stolen in an oligarchial1 coup from the Hawaiian people. And considering how much so the impacts of slavery still influence other states politics, it shouldn’t be that surprising that this history still impacts our politics very strongly, especially considering that effectively, the oligarchs that took over the kingdom, are still in power.
And thats kind of what I’m saying. Ed Case is wide open to this critique considering that his family basically moved here to serve the post-coup, and then eventually, territorial government.
So there is real narrative power here, and the zeitgeist is primed. Just need to find the right candidate.
1: Liluakolani used the word oligarch to describe the Missionary party (and Dole specifically) in 1898