Think I'll do a thread of thoughts that are coming up in response to this tweet...https://twitter.com/cosimia_/status/1118661191360860167 …
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Humans love to paint huge patterns with archetypal meaning, as a way to understand and interact. Patterns of creation, chaos, time, life, death, elements, nature, fertility, hunting, harvest, love, war... And we're making new concentrations of meaning and power. Gods?
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Ex: The scale of the most massive art cars at Burning Man is awe-inspiring, in the old meaning: " reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder" Especially Mayan Warrior, Sanctuary, etc. "And the people bowed and prayed, to the neon god they made." https://youtu.be/Ele9XLIjiys?t=2051 …
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The art cars move like vast neon whale gods, trailed by schools of worshippers. They interact, have allegiances and rivalries. And can be understood as centers of narrative agency. ("Why all the effort, time, $?" "For the god.")https://youtu.be/0OnW7qmiAz4?t=105 …
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Not that dissimilar to how we often center agency in corporations, when we tell stories. "Facebook" did this, "Google" did that. And, as Aldous Huxley wrote in Island, all gods are homemade. https://www.huxley.net/island/
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He described a scene of beautiful deity figures as scarecrow puppets in a garden. "He wanted to make the children understand that all gods are homemade, and that it's we who pull their strings and so give them the power to pull ours."pic.twitter.com/kBQywgPDbC
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This page opens with a quote from Pratchett re: homemade gods, and expands into a discussion of naturalizing Vajrayana yidam practice:https://vividness.live/2017/02/09/yidams-a-godless-approach-naturally/ …
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