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.
#Hypermodern
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrad_of_media_effects …
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explain why?
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What’s your mechanism here?
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See link in the OP regarding the media aspect. Regarding the cultural aspect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublimation_(psychology) … Underlying biological impulses drive behavior patterns and storytelling, which structure into culture and religion.
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If you’re just saying contemporary conditions permit a reflux of marginalized tendencies that had ancestrally been addressed through shamanism, that seems fine.
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That's part of it, but there's more. Every media technology retrieves from the past and changes the cultural semiotics. Primal shamanic practice is dead in modern civilization, but the biological impulse are still there, and are resurfacing through new technology.
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We think that we are progressing, but in many aspects, we are becoming more savage, and are ignorant of the ancient solutions for resolving the problems of savages, because they have become obsolete in past technological cycles due to sublimation.
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