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I deeply appreciate your work here. I'm planning some deep reading of your series. And to share this series, if permitted. I ho
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Feel free to share!
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Two other brief points. You use 'trance' negatively. I do not. So you are not addressing my argument here. Look at my two exampl
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Notice I never wrote "uneducated cave person." I certainly do not consider that implied in the term "Trump supporter." I was mak
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I have a question about meme trances and brains. I have a traumatic brain injury which doesn't seem to allow me to hold memes. I e
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My first installment demonstrated societies can be understood as ecosystems. When we think of society as an ecosystem, one question moves to the front: people are organisms, but where are the others? Ecosystems are not monocultures. A cultural ecology obviously depends on people and exists at the level of consciousness, so where are the other organisms?
...For those of you interested in examining the complete argument criticizing the entire idea of 'cultural appropriation' and describing a far better, and much more interesting, alternative view, I have now posted it up on my web site.
Many memes are communicated through language, and, like any tool, language shapes how we look at the world when using it. Language facilitates some memes’ replication and makes the survival of others more difficult by shaping what relations are easy to notice and what relations require more effort. Different languages have different biases in this regard. One linguistic feature is particularly relevant here: do we experience our world primarily as objects, or primarily as processes and relations? Clearly there is value in both perspectives, but which gets emphasis is in no small part shaped by language.
...Some people within the Pagan community object to instances of what they consider “cultural appropriation.” Smudging with sage, seeking a power animal, celebrating Day of the Dead, is somehow stealing. To my mind they are confused about culture, confused about appropriation, and even confused about what it is to be a human being. In their confusion they attack other Pagans, creating a problem for all of us.
No NeoPagans practice traditions with an unbroken connection to pre-Christian times. Almost all old Pagan traditions have been mostly oral, and the core of those teachings have been lost. When once Pagan practices have survived, their interpretation will have changed, as Sabina Magliocco has described in rural Italy.
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Aryós Jezebel quotes cultural appropriation as "'Taking intellectual property, traditional knowledge, cultural expressions, or ar
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I too, have found the phrase to be mostly a stumbling block. It seems as if it may have been mostly used for more extreme example
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Thank you for continuing the discussion! Though some of what you raise eill be in later installments, here is some stuff I hope y
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"You say for you it was limited to the sacred. Maybe for you. For example, thoughtlessly eating a burrito was given as an example
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Aryós I am not very concerned with where the term first appeared, but if you can provide a link I will be happy to make that disti