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I am not sure, i think the occult, the hidden has remained so due to persecution by socially normative pressures, the reason perhaps being is that many of the notions contained within do challenge social attitudes, but as these more challenging attitudes transmit through pop culture albeit in a diluted form, that will change, as will the older more social governing institutions, it will come from a very simple process, people talking and communicating more and having more information than they have ever had available at any other time. The dissemination of what were once considered occult ideas or hidden notions is no longer an issue. Social conformity has become almost totally inclusive of the information required to adopt or live a certain way, anybody can gather the objects or information to become a thing, cultural identity as opposed to ethnic sexual or racial identity has become a transparent process. Self identity created through media be it magickal or other wise is a pick and mix affair as long as time is taken to consume and digest, and then process. Being the idea gives a surface level entry point into a wider body of understanding.
The depth still comes from practice and concentration, but the mixing of occulture into pop culture seems to be formulating a media structure that carries what were once considered esoteric notions, far more readily.
An idea that is starting to get far more scientific theory and validity of late has been dawkins idea of memes, its something i have been juggling with in my head especially with regards to identity. There seems to be a strong case for identity based on race, sex, ethnicity and religion, but what seems to be rising around that is cultural identity that is not dependent upon a sense of older appearences but what information of ideas people share in common, people that support certain memes and there associated trappings, seem to be relating via ideation.
This while containing many old ideas and misusing the science of memes has been making me think of late Artistic Endeavors as Representations of Complex Memetic Structures |
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