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> undermine the authority of the dominant imperialist hierarchy. Ah, yes, the ever-present institutional forces conspiring to oppress the agency of independent

by wahern 2y ago

> undermine the authority of the dominant imperialist hierarchy. Ah, yes, the ever-present institutional forces conspiring to oppress the agency of independent, freedom-loving, free-thinking people. I wonder where the oppression-focused, conspiratorial, paranoid, anti-authoritarian mindset steeped in the language of violence that is so prevalent in the industrialized West, especially among those with mental disorders, comes from....

krapp 2y ago
I didn't say anything about agency, free thought or freedom, but yes. Colonialism existed. Empires existed. And the spread of Christianity throughout the Western world was inextricably linked to both ever since the day Constantine decided Christians dying in his army would be more useful to him than Christians dying in the arena. That just bare historical fact. And theories of mind (and associated disorders) tend to be culturally based and coded - see the syndrome/myth of the wendigo as an example. And it does matter if your culture is colonized and forcibly assimilated into a religious paradigm that explicitly suppresses "shamanic" practices as heretical. The degree of common cultural recognition of shamanism as an esoteric interpretation of hallucinatory experience in any Western culture is roughly in proportion to the degree to which colonizing powers sought to eradicate, and resisted syncretism with, existing native traditions. Because that just wasn't a thing in Christianity in the West at the time. I don't know what the snark is supposed to be for, and your comment just seems to descend into a bout of logorrhea. It's difficult for me to know what point you're actually trying to make, or what you're trying to prove or disprove. I guess I did a wrongthink and short circuited your capacity for rational thought? Sorry about that.

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> undermine the authority of the dominant imperialist hierarchy. Ah, yes, the ever-present institutional forces conspiring to oppress the agency of independent

by wahern 2y ago

krapp 2y ago
I didn't say anything about agency, free thought or freedom, but yes. Colonialism existed. Empires existed. And the spread of Christianity throughout the Western world was inextricably linked to both ever since the day Constantine decided Christians dying in his army would be more useful to him than Christians dying in the arena. That just bare historical fact. And theories of mind (and associated disorders) tend to be culturally based and coded - see the syndrome/myth of the wendigo as an example. And it does matter if your culture is colonized and forcibly assimilated into a religious paradigm that explicitly suppresses "shamanic" practices as heretical. The degree of common cultural recognition of shamanism as an esoteric interpretation of hallucinatory experience in any Western culture is roughly in proportion to the degree to which colonizing powers sought to eradicate, and resisted syncretism with, existing native traditions. Because that just wasn't a thing in Christianity in the West at the time. I don't know what the snark is supposed to be for, and your comment just seems to descend into a bout of logorrhea. It's difficult for me to know what point you're actually trying to make, or what you're trying to prove or disprove. I guess I did a wrongthink and short circuited your capacity for rational thought? Sorry about that.