Another World, MARCH 2022
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In this month’s Another World
THE PAGAN MUSIC LIST 19: Slavic Edition
Inspired by recent geo-political events, this edition of the Pagan Music List focuses on music from bands in Slavic countries, including Lithuania, Belarus, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine.
The first of a two-part discussion series between Paul Kingsnorth and Rhyd Wildermuth, on the place of the sacred in society and the damage wrought to human relations through human-centric technology.
The way we live now is in what’s been called ‘hyper-reality’: a version of the world that is more immediate to us now than the real thing. That hyper-reality then shapes reality itself. Think of how abstract debates or fights on social media translate into real-world outcomes. What this means is that everything from cars to smartphones to motorways to televisions have so reshaped our world over the past half century or so, that we no longer live in the same reality as even our grandparents, let along our ancestors. This in turn gives us great notions of our own power. We start to talk as if we can remake the whole world, colonise space—become gods. And then we’re right back to the warnings in those old myths. I suppose the reason we need so many warnings is that we never listen.
Anti-religious sentiment and a sense that rural people are ignorant is endemic to leftist organising. Rhyd Wildermuth argues it once wasn’t, and it must end if we are ever to fight the capitalists.
It’s much easier to explain to a person that their boss is paying them less than they deserve than it is convince them there is no god. Explaining to someone that other people are in the very same position they are, and that if they all work together they can force the bosses to listen to them, is a concrete argument that has direct relevance to their daily lives.
That is, it doesn’t require a person to accept an entire cultural framework in which such ideas make sense. You can believe Jesus was born of a virgin and also believe that your boss should pay you more without any contradiction at all. In fact, in many ways the already-existing cultural framework of Christianity, at least in its more populist manifestations, often provided the very metaphors and slogans many the poor had used to express their revolutionary desires both before and after the birth of leftism.
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