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Papua New Guinea (PNG)’s culture is over 47,000 years old and resilient. The modern nation construct of that PNG is just less than 60 years old featuring a ‘blink’ in PNG’s overall history but it was quite a devastating experience for its people, biodiversity and wilderness. PNG is relatively free of leftist or Marxist ideologies, but it is a control site showing that the ‘modern’ form of development has not resulted into a wider, higher and more equal distribution of wealth while the closest neighbor (Australia and to a lesser extent New Zealand) as well as colonial and global powers still are cashing in from PNG, e.g. mining, oil and gas, fisheries, timber, human resources. The science is only partly done for PNG but a quite ruthless extraction, collection and policy industry was allowed to operate in PNG to this very day, benefitting from views that are outdated, incomplete and self-serving for those nations. Based on a topical summary, here those details are acknowledged, and then, a synthesis outlook is presented to move forward for PNG in reality terms while sorcery, bush life and tribalism (‘Wantok’) are ongoing and might contribute to resilience and sustainability in the absence of any other and better options at hand.
During a rainfall and heavy fog in the mountains, on a muddy forest road somewhere in remote PNG, I see walking umbrellas towards me coming out of nowhere. It was utterly scurrile; stuff for a movie. Who is under these fast-moving colorful umbrellas, how many people will be there, and will they mug you ? But instead they either just passed by, or stated ‘monning’ in the nicest and most friendly way imaginable; it was a travel group consisting of a male, females and kids; a wilderness frontier experience ‘in the bush’.
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The Convergence of Worlds: Or simply Convergence , for short. What exactly IS Convergence*? A convergence occurs when objects or beings from different regions of the multiverse instantaneously cross vast distances and fuse together momentarily – usually only for a zeptosecond before the merged matter reverts back to its normal state. But this convergence is unique– as these planets have remained meshed together.
A new reality was cobbled together in the blink of an eye, as mysterious forces brought pieces of four disparate worlds together. The citizens of Eemia, Ossuary, Numina, and the Immensity had never before been aware of each other – and in an instant they were pulled apart from their homeworlds and thrust together to carve out a new future. The cosmic immigrant story of the Convergence was born.
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Huettmann, F., Steiner, M. (2023). Bringing It All Home: Where on Earth is Papua New Guinea, Its Society, Their Environment and Well-Being Heading? Summarized Examples of Western Failure and ‘Forwards to the Roots,’ in Your Own Garden Without Social Engineering!. In: Globalization and Papua New Guinea: Ancient Wilderness, Paradise, Introduced Terror and Hell. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20262-9_31
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