2007年10月29日
Rebalancing
Today I'd just like to share with you an excerpt from Jeremy Narby's 'Intelligence in Nature'.
"[In 'primitive' cultures] where indigenous people are trying hard to join what they perceive to be the exciting world of the future, shamanism begins to look like old-fashioned hocus-pocus and is quietly forgotten. In one way or another, the arrival of modernity and its paraphernalia is usually the death knell of these different, primitive, animist, whatever you want to call them, worldviews. The interesting re-flux of that central current of history is that just as 'primitive' worldviews die out in the hinterlands of the new global system, they take root at its center. To the urban middle classes, already saturated with modernity's paraphernalia and bored with the world bled of meanings they seem to entrain, shamanism, voodoo, witchcraft, all things primitive, suddenly seem extremely appealing. It is an interesting historical crisscross. To the so-called primitive, marginalized, and usually powerless, the promise of the modern is things, ease and security. To the so-called modern, the promise of the primitive is the one thing he or she lacks - meaning. This primitive rush for the modern and the modern rush for the primitive is one of the weird but well-recognized features of the current cultural landscape of our world. Many of us spend out lives traversing it."
"[In 'primitive' cultures] where indigenous people are trying hard to join what they perceive to be the exciting world of the future, shamanism begins to look like old-fashioned hocus-pocus and is quietly forgotten. In one way or another, the arrival of modernity and its paraphernalia is usually the death knell of these different, primitive, animist, whatever you want to call them, worldviews. The interesting re-flux of that central current of history is that just as 'primitive' worldviews die out in the hinterlands of the new global system, they take root at its center. To the urban middle classes, already saturated with modernity's paraphernalia and bored with the world bled of meanings they seem to entrain, shamanism, voodoo, witchcraft, all things primitive, suddenly seem extremely appealing. It is an interesting historical crisscross. To the so-called primitive, marginalized, and usually powerless, the promise of the modern is things, ease and security. To the so-called modern, the promise of the primitive is the one thing he or she lacks - meaning. This primitive rush for the modern and the modern rush for the primitive is one of the weird but well-recognized features of the current cultural landscape of our world. Many of us spend out lives traversing it."
Posted by グラハム・ハンコック at 07:31
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