Actually, I don't believe it has. Cargo culting, since the very beginning, is the mimicry by a poseur of someone doing the mimicked action in order to produce

Actually, I don't believe it has. Cargo culting, since the very beginning, is the mimicry by a poseur of someone doing the mimicked action in order to produce similar results. There is no semantic or etymological difficulty. The process you describe has nothing to do with cargo cult.