Working hypothesis:
New Age spirituality, vegan/paleo diet, furries, transgenders, and accelerationism are all aberrant, domesticated retrievals of the shamanism of hunter gatherers due to a retrieval of nomadism resulting from digital media.
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@Logo_Daedalus@johndavidebert@martyrmade@MichaelAaronK@michaelgarfield@Ahimsa_Satya_@krumbbumm @duckevenfree11 reply 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread -
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Replying to @michaelgarfield @Logo_Daedalus and
"Aberrant" is a word used by Eliade in the book to convey shamanic practices by common folk who haven't been initiated properly. Seems valid here.
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Replying to @MimeticValue @michaelgarfield and
It's the ersatz religiosity of an overfed cultural fellaheen. Like Africans in the New World, stripped of their heritage and piecing together various myths, superstitions, and rumors into the various flavors of voodoo or Santeria.
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Replying to @martyrmade @MimeticValue and
Fellaheen in the Spenglerian sense are post-collapse subsistence peasants, but the humans of Wall-E could be considered fellaheen as well.
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Replying to @martyrmade @michaelgarfield and
This is why traditional rites of passage are so important. The loss of them is one of the worst things that has happened to modern civilization.
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Replying to @MimeticValue @michaelgarfield and
Healthy cultures have a nostalgic respect for the peasant. The warrior king sees his belly grow in his city palace and demands his people at least pay lip service to the simpler values of the countryside. When the city begins to hold the country in contempt, start the countdown.
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Peasant catastrophes are predictable: pogroms against outsiders, attacking deviants.. typical conservative crimes. There's no telling what cities, given as they are to abstraction, unrestrained experimentation, and the behavioral sink might get up to when the anchor chain breaks.
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