The criticism of modern society by Chief Seattle

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The criticism of modern society by Chief Seattle

In the beginning of America formation, people from all over the world rushed into this great nation. They drove the American Indians who lived in this country for hundreds of years to the point of extinction. In the process, most of the American Indians were being killed or forced to move to the reservation; lives and traditions of the American Indian were cease to exist. Moreover, the herds of buffaloes, which once roaring in this nation, were no longer there. In the essay "Letter To President Pierce, 1855" by one of the greatest American Indian leaders, Chief Seattle, he expressed many criticisms about bad relationships between modern society and nature. He claim that modern man does not think the land is precious but a too to use. He claim that the modern man doesn't appreciate earth, for modern man it is a thing to conquer, to take for granted. He claimed that all life on earth depend on each other, one life fall, others will fall too. In my opinion, I agree and believe all criticisms are relevant.

In the eyes of Chief Seattle, modern man had taken the land from the earth and heavily cultivated until it became uninhabited. Chief Seattle claimed that in the eyes of

As our technology advanced, we will be able to travel beyond the earth and find places we can live; it was something that Chief Seattle cannot predict. But even then we cannot forget mother earth like children cannot forget their mother. We cannot forget the spirit of our ancestors and we are the people of earth. From modern society's point of view, without experienced the life of modern society or benefited from the modern society I say Chief Seattle wouldn't understand how modern technologies had improved people's life; how modern technologies had brought people around the world closer than we ever thought possible; how modern technologies had changed the way that people experience the world. But from the American Indian's point of view, I say are we willing to sacrifice the earth for this kind of modern life? Chief Seattle said he doesn't understand what modern man are trying to achieve by abused the land and kill all the beast: "The white man's dreams are hidden from us"(661). By using irony, he implied that he doesn't understand the dream of modern man or maybe there is no dream in modern man for him to see. Chief Seattle's criticisms are important warning and from the point of view of modern society of 1999, I believe all criticisms Chief Seattle spoke are relevant not only now but also the future of our generations.

In the earlier 1800, people worked for days and night and just barely survive. There was no time or pleasure for a rest on the cough or a smoke of cigar. Thus looking at stars, talking to friends or listening to the rustle sound of insect's wings was almost impossible. Thus Chief Seattle criticized, "There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the leaves of spring or the rustle of insect's wings... the clatter only seems to insult the ears"(660). Chief Seattle criticized that the life in the

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