“The lazy native” was a colonial myth. “The captive mind” is its afterlife in knowledge. Decolonising thought means refusing both.

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How can social theory be decolonised without falling into total epistemic rejection?
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@nativenewyorker77.bsky.social Milosz wrote The #CaptiveMind after defecting from Russian occupied Poland. It's about the Persian concept of KETMUN: you act as if you believe in what is the rule, but hide what you know to be true inside. Perhaps that's where the term "I'm of two minds" comes from.