We’ve been taught in our colonial schools, churches and other institutions that traditional indigenous production is “primitive” (having ‘principle’) and ‘savage’ (derived from ‘Sylva’ = ‘of the forest or tree’) and how colonialism improved upon it. In actual fact indigenous production represents hundreds of thousands of years of scientific experimentation and improvement within systems-thinking and democratic (both political and economic) governance where people maintained personal and community control. Our ‘exogenous’ (Latin = ‘other-generated’) system is both short-term and unproductive.