Tyson Yunkaporta

But, you know, everybody got a cosmology.

It's just, you know, what the cosmos looks like from your point of view.

Well, because that's what everybody demands, because that's what they're used to reading.

There's a professor, Martin Nakata, he's a Torres Strait Islander, really big intellectual.

And he mentored me for a few years.

And I was doing a lot of personal narrative, like we all do.

And he said, you've got to stop doing that.

He said, that's what we all do.

You need to go beyond that narrative.

You need to get to the meta-narrative.

But it's also, I don't know, I started to get, I don't know, annoyed about it because when I stopped doing that, people were disappointed.

You know, it's like, no, I want that.

I want to hear, yeah, I want to hear your terrible story because that's what they're used to hearing.

That's it.

It's all these old white dudes.

What do they call them?

Pale, stale, and male or something.

They never have to do that.

They just get to, because it's considered that their voice is neutral or something.

So they just get to go out and be the canon.