STS200 Lecture 7: STS 200 LECTURE 7
23 Feb 2016
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Sts 200 lecture 7 tuesday january 26 th , 2016. Agriculture tends to conceptualize (wild) nature as chaotic and evil . Quote(pg 4e): the description of a wish is also the description of its fulfillment magic gives representation to a wish . Magic tells us what would/does satisfy us. In magical healing, we indicate that we wish for the illness to leave the body yo cancer, fuck off . Magic indicates the problem, and the willfull solution. God doesn"t necessarily step in when you pray for him/her to. A literal understanding of physical phenomena isn"t necessary to be human. Our ancestors didn"t have this frame of mind and they got along fine: some cultures just don"t care about science and tech. They don"t need/want to know how the universe works in order to master it. They"re content with their relationship with the metaphorical/mythological, and a practical knowledge and know-how/how-to.
