There's a lot of this article I agree with. Some of the key things I disagree with are: 1. That the shaman's job is sensemaking for the community 2. That the

There's a lot of this article I agree with. Some of the key things I disagree with are: 1. That the shaman's job is sensemaking for the community 2. That the shaman's job is useless in the modern world I think the modern world does not value the shaman, but they are still very much needed. There is something broken and incomplete about modernity that goes beyond inadequate sensemaking. There's nothing vestigial about shamans, though that's generally how we see them now. One of the things I am exploring now is a reframing of "civilization". That perhaps, it is not some form of governance, or allocation of resources, or the material culture and technology. Rather, it is design, and shamans plays a key role. Understood as such, nomadic, tribal, settled cultures all have forms of civilization, because there's some form of design. Example: there's a hypothesis that the cave paintings of animals contain symbols for counting moons, and together, used as a hunting calendar for the local area.