I saw another dumb rant about "cultural appropriation" in magick and they always, always include some crap about 'well in LEGITIMATE spiritual traditions, blah blah whine', and, like... fuckin' define "legitimate" Trick question of course because, get this: You fucking can't
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You either mean "old" or "practiced by non-whites" or both. Dress it up however you like, argue about it, but it's always just that You're so fucking Woke you've come right back around to the 'magical negro' trope, or just plain old conservatism, and you can't even see it
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You know what's a "Legitimate Spiritual Tradition"? Human sacrifice. Human sacrifice was practically the sine qua non of religion in the ancient world.
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Oh I'm sorry, Woke 21st Century Occultist, do you still cling to the comforting delusion that YOUR beloved deities would never, and HAVE never, instituted such a thing? That it was ALL just misguided power-hungry humanity, EVERY single time? Are you SURE about that?
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If your version of practicing magick requires you to go get permission and maybe a title from some group of humans first, well, that's your business, but: LOL
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Actually, "Spiritual" is as vague and useless as "Legitimate"--it's little wonder that attempts to delineate "legitimate spiritual traditions" always lean so hard on the last of those three words, because the first two are meaningless and say whatever you want them to say
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How many thousands of years does an idea have to be around, and how many continents, countries, and cultures does it have to spread to before we finally just say "fuck it, this belongs to humanity collectively now if it 'belongs' to anyone"
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"But Seth you're applying a modern Western conception of intellectual property and its limits to blah blah--" Yes, I know. Fuck it, I'm just gonna call it: For all our faults, we got that one right. Everyone who 'came up with' those 'legitimate spiritual traditions' is long dead
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I mean, long, long, long, long LONG dead. Their great-great-great-great-etc. grandchildren no more invented those traditions than the 'colonial' or 'columbusing' white person getting interested in them now did.
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Anti-Cultural Appropriation Discourse: It's "Blood and Soil", But Woke
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