Political victimization examples & a gamble in 'shamanizing' - YouTube

Political victimization examples & a gamble in 'shamanizing' - YouTube

Antistar211 22 minutes ago

Why were Nietzsche, Bataille, and Marachera shamanising for? What were they shamanising against? If they were indeed shamanising "against" something.

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Political victimization examples & a gamble in 'shamanizing'

Jennifer Armstrong (Philosophy) 20 minutes ago (edited)

Actually, they were all shamanizing against inauthenticity, which they experienced as a kind of gaslighting.

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Antistar211 15 minutes ago

"Actually, they were all shamanizing against authenticity, which they experienced as a kind of gaslighting." Can you expand a bit on what you mean by that?

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Jennifer Armstrong (Philosophy) 12 minutes ago (edited)

Maybe in another video...but they were rebelling against the way that the prevailing ideology of their time mitigated against their own sense of a broader and more complex reality. Nietzsche thought that religion contradicted his sense of meaning & value, and above all, his intellectual struggle. Bataille thought it was the bourgeois (middle class, capitalist) ideology, and Marechera felt it was colonialism.

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