I don’t buy into his hunter/gather vs farmers approach to politics but he raises some good points regardless.
One of my professors said you can’t write off a group of people as being primitive or lacking advancement when their culture has survived many thousands of years. Continued existence and propagation of your culture over millennia is objective success.
Archetypes are archetypes for a reason.
Humans change but how different are we really from people 20,000 years ago or longer? IMO, not that different and when we drag ourselves to space, we aren’t going to magically stop being humans either.
What we are living through is the severing of the lines of cultural propagation in part due to natural changes in the order of society and in part because of a nefarious ideology that seeks to take advantage of these changes and subvert it into its own twisted image of humanity.
There are some lessons to be learned from our fellows that lived tens of thousands of years ago, those who maintained their culture to the present, and those who have beneficially adapted recently. But the archetypes are archetypes for a reason. They will arise on their own or we can bring them forward with intent.
Rick Rubin speaks about a sort of collective consciousness where ideas bubble up when it is time for them to do so and that when an artist has an idea, expressing that idea is like a calling but if they don’t, some other artist will because it is time for that idea to be expressed.
It is a little hippy dippy but we have all said to ourselves, “Hey! I thought of that.” To make it a little less hippy dippy and appeal to the “high iq” types, some ideas will mutually arise in the brains capable enough to think them, concurrent development. For us normals, executing on an idea requires the confluence of timing, funding, and expertise.
We are at a cultural inflection point. Nothing is fated, but the archetypes are calling. We have the sentience to act on them just as our ancestors did.
Cultural decline is a choice and so is generation.
I don’t buy into his hunter/gather vs farmers approach to politics but he raises some good points regardless.
One of my professors said you can’t write off a group of people as being primitive or lacking advancement when their culture has survived many thousands of years. Continued existence and propagation of your culture over millennia is objective success.
Archetypes are archetypes for a reason.
Humans change but how different are we really from people 20,000 years ago or longer? IMO, not that different and when we drag ourselves to space, we aren’t going to magically stop being humans either.
What we are living through is the severing of the lines of cultural propagation in part due to natural changes in the order of society and in part because of a nefarious ideology that seeks to take advantage of these changes and subvert it into its own twisted image of humanity.
There are some lessons to be learned from our fellows that lived tens of thousands of years ago, those who maintained their culture to the present, and those who have beneficially adapted recently. But the archetypes are archetypes for a reason. They will arise on their own or we can bring them forward with intent.
Rick Rubin speaks about a sort of collective consciousness where ideas bubble up when it is time for them to do so and that when an artist has an idea, expressing that idea is like a calling but if they don’t, some other artist will because it is time for that idea to be expressed.
It is a little hippy dippy but we have all said to ourselves, “Hey! I thought of that.” To make it a little less hippy dippy and appeal to the “high iq” types, some ideas will mutually arise in the brains capable enough to think them, concurrent development. For us normals, executing on an idea requires the confluence of timing, funding, and expertise.
We are at a cultural inflection point. Nothing is fated, but the archetypes are calling. We have the sentience to act on them just as our ancestors did.
Cultural decline is a choice and so is generation.