Early South American Mediation

I just erased everything I had written about this article for the last half an hour.
It sounded - and it looked - like an essay.
Then I realized, "Shit, this is a blog. All this is far too formal. I should curse in my revision."
So it was thought, SO. IT. SHALL. BE.

I'm not sure if I'm supposed to write as if you, the reader, haven't read the article or you have. To be on the safe side, Imma just do a recap of the billion pages of interesting (anthropologists have this knack of saying the same thing a hundred different ways making their papers SO much longer than they need to be) so I can get to the meaty stuff about media influence:
So this dude, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, is a South American Indian in the 1500's (after Spanish conquest). He's the son of a high-ranking, crown-backing Peruvian and an Inca princess. His half brother went off to the Franciscan order at 12, came back to the village to be a model Catholic citizen, and educated Guaman Poma. Guaman Poma goes through his whole life seeing Indian military rebellion fail against the Spaniards time and time again. Since writing is important in Spanish culture, Guaman Poma decides to write to King Philip III of Spain giving a kind of "no taxation without representation"-esque protest. He doesn't want the Spanish to go away, he just wants the Andes to be treated as a sovereign nation instead of a colony. Guaman Poma writes a 1200 page book about the history of Peru and includes 398 illustrations to go along with it, as was popular in European culture at the time. The weird thing about it? He skews the history of his country so it more closely resembles that of European nations and Christianity. He recognizes his sneakiness for what it is and even goes so far as to call himself original. Guaman Poma is one sly dog. Unfortunately, it's believed that his History didn't make it all the way to the King and was intercepted by a Dane and put into a private collection to collect dust until it was found in 1908.

On to the meaty stuff.
Guaman Poma's ability to process Spanish culture and use it to his advantage as a persuasive tool displays an extreme ability for abstract thought. This guy's an effing genius (I warned you about the cursing). In his History, while shaking the Spanish hand, he's pulling out a knife with the other.
Some pictures display raping of Indian women, Indian exploitation, murder, and abuse. Others, to Spaniards, would project a feeling that Andean culture was accepting Spanish culture. However, Guaman Poma was hinting that Spanish culture was actually taking in Andean culture, a concept the Spanish would not have appreciated. The creation of the pictures is the influence of Spanish culture, but to fully understand them, a knowledge of Andean cosmology is needed. Andean culture favors the view of the illustration as opposed to the view of the onlooker, so much of what is drawn should be flipped about the y-axis in order to have a "Western" view of things.
Guaman Poma, in his plea to the King, proposes that the Inca is no one but "His Catholic Majesty." However, what he's really saying is that "His Catholic Majesty" is the new Inca.
See what I mean about that "sly" thing?

Has the Inca culture been fused with Spanish in order to create a new culture comparable to neither, but taking inspiration from both, or has the Andean culture remained mostly the same, resisting outward influences?

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So this is how you vlog?

Basically, putting something on the internet is like George Michael filming himself reenacting his favorite scene from Star Wars. It never goes away.