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@AskYatharth This reminded me of a tweet I once saw somebody post https://t.co/qtzXVekW5Y
when New Age people do "ceremony", they're doing something so close to what it looks like when i do ceremony, in form, but it's nothing like what im doing https://t.co/WQ0su0Q4XX
this is literally what cultural appropriation is—wearing the symbols of the doing, doing the rites of the thing it's all symbols to these people https://t.co/EiKJZi2OvO
monetising it for status and self-regulation without care about what it is https://t.co/fVzhKHrwlw
the thing New Age people are doing is superficially similar to what any older tradition might have meant by "ceremony" but it's cut from a different metaphor. it's soooooo not the same thing, it's insulting to think it is, but i get it https://t.co/siarWTawTF
this happened to yoga too yoga wasn't just "workout class" or "making shapes with your body". but that's what got exported to western audience they think they're doing the same thing im doing when i do yoga https://t.co/G2XKLvg8UC
i know that im angry about this, and eventually, i'll come to see New Age people as not Other than me i have parts in me like them. they have parts in them like me but that day is not today. today is the day to other and expose my shadow, and my shadow is New Age people
the rootless new age hippies of the new world are the parasites and spiritual frackers of the old world, mining it for spiritually extractive consumptive experiences, and turning ceremony into an industry with nothing but good intentions
@AskYatharth re: “co-opters diluting powerful words,” I used to be annoyed by this, then realized 1. we can keep the core thing alive by simply finding new words 2. Josh Schrei is so great at reanimating any word at all. he says “friction,” and suddenly - a whole world blooms there.