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- From: grimoire@byron.u.washington.edu (John Greer)
- Subject: Re: Singin' Those Apocalypse Blues
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.235213.15588@u.washington.edu>
- Keywords: gloom doom magic survival
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:52:13 GMT
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- In article <BzFoB1.3yD@acsu.buffalo.edu> oispeggy@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Peggy Brown) writes:
- >
- >These people you know who are scarfing land, are they doing it
- >because they also believe in this impending disaster? If so,
- >could you describe these people in more detail. (I don't know
- >anyone that like that, so I'm curious.)
- >
- >- Peggy -
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- Actually, you quite possibly do know someone like that; a lot of the folks
- I know who are making preparations of this sort aren't particularly public
- about it. (There are some interesting similarities between the survival
- subculture and the magical subculture in this society, possibly having a
- lot to do with the fact that most people think both groups are stark staring
- crazy.)
-
- Are they getting land because they expect our current civilization to go
- the way of the dinosaurs, the dodo and the Khanate of the Golden Horde?
- That's usually half or more of the reason, although a fondness for green
- things, breathable air and a less styrene life often has a lot to do with
- it also.
-
- I'm not sure what you want in terms of a "description in more detail," I
- admit. There are no simple categories in which the people I know can be
- shoved (e.g., "right-wing loony," "technophobe," or what have you). Do
- you want individual examples? One group I know fairly well has in it,
- among others, an electrician active in the men's movement (a la Robert Bly
- and so on), a roofer into libertarian politics, a civil engineer who
- practices Native American quasi-shamanism, a railroad dispatcher and
- former championship marksman who's a Gilbert and Sullivan fiend, and so
- on. No solar symbols on armbands, no foil-lined hats: people you might
- run into anywhere. People in this group voted for practically every
- presidential candidate you'd care to name except George Bush.
-
- They do tend to be better educated than average, but that's one of the few
- regularities I can think of.
-
- Hmm. These people who are practicing magic, Peggy, are they doing it
- because they believe it works? If so, could you describe these people
- in more detail. (I don't know anyone like that, so I'm curious. :) )
-
- -- John Michael Greer
- grimoire@u.washington.edu
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