Did the rising American folk religion accidentally reinvent Shinto?PATREON: https://patreon.com/probablyjacobTWITCH: https://www.twitch.tv/probablyjacobliveT...
I don't know why but I like this guy's videos on paranormal woo stuff
I have always thought that the American obsession with cryptids is a release valve for guilt/respect of harms done to nature and indigenous people. It posits that wild things exist beyond our understanding, that they persist despite our environmental devastation, and that they represent the purest spirit of the land. It's not a coincidence that many of them, sasquatch most prominently, are literally figures of Native American myth.
It's also a form of Orientalism, the myths of cultures that are deliberately being eroded being sold back to us as products to consume, all tinged with the same generic Native American Mysticism that gets the :lmayo: to buy dream catchers and moccasins
I have always thought that the American obsession with cryptids is a release valve for guilt/respect of harms done to nature and indigenous people. It posits that wild things exist beyond our understanding, that they persist despite our environmental devastation, and that they represent the purest spirit of the land. It's not a coincidence that many of them, sasquatch most prominently, are literally figures of Native American myth.
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It's also a form of Orientalism, the myths of cultures that are deliberately being eroded being sold back to us as products to consume, all tinged with the same generic Native American Mysticism that gets the :lmayo: to buy dream catchers and moccasins
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