I’m pretty sure that our actual ancestors were not trying to be “good ancestors.” (Many worked hard to be good for their family and community.) What would be different if they HAD tried to be good ancestors?
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Replying to @stewartbrand
If ancestor worship was such a large part of our historical culture and religion, is it not a corollary that they tried to be good ancestors and that the counterfactual is that they could’ve been way worse?
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Replying to @ankurrsharma
Great point. What differences of “goodness” can we detect in the societies that practiced ancestor worship?
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Replying to @stewartbrand
I think the spenglerian point would be that the phenomenology of our ancestors would so different that we couldn’t correct verbalise what was “good” to them; insofar as good even existed.
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Replying to @ankurrsharma
Nah, we can tell from their stories and proclamations what they thought, and conjure from there.
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Replying to @stewartbrand
My experiment with even speaking to my grandfather was that our words were so far apart that I’m reluctant to conjure things when the fidelity of words fall generationally.
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iirc many native american tribes had a ritual practice of consulting 6 generations in past and future in taking any decision... of course the dead/unborn votes were basically consensus-by-shaman...
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