Our culture is not fluent in descriptions of process.
We are better at nouns than verbs.
https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/5/easterling.php
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In R. W. Kimmerer's Grammar of Animacy, she says that 70% of words in Potawatomi are verbs, as opposed to English in which only 30% are. Through the lens of an animist language, the hill is less there, than there is occupied at being a hill. She puts it succinctly in "A bay is a noun only if water is dead".
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@neauoire This makes me think of Erich Fromm's To Have or To Be, which makes an incredibly convincing argument that our static, noun-based view of the world (the having mode of existence) is the root of much of our unhappiness and many of societies problems.
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@ifreund @neauoire And makes me think of Leroy Little Bear's essay "Jagged Worldviews Colliding" about this, and the Eurocentric emphasis on definite binary definitions.
https://www.law.utoronto.ca/sites/default/files/documents/hewitt-leroy_little_bear_on_jagged_worldviews.pdf
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