[UA] Cultures in animals

[Torsten Bernhardt]

> >You have an
> >extremely inflated idea of the importance of souls, or self-awareness, or
> >what >have you.
>
>*I* don't.  The Unknown Armies setting does.  (You have to admit that it
>would change the setting an awful awful lot if there were animal
>archetypes.  Not to mention that whole "trillion ton pile of rotting meat"
>business.)

Perhaps animals have their own Invisible Clergy, and it fills up at the 
same time as ours. Perhaps you can only ascend by striving towards 
something; animals don't really strive towards things, they just are. Let's 
face it, a lion would have it all over a human in terms of ascending to a 
hypothetical Hunter archetype, as a hunter is what a lion is and is 
designed for. Then again, lions also spend a lot of time relaxing, while a 
Hunter avatar most likely wouldn't, so perhaps humans do ascend to 
positions despite being in competition with animals. Like I know anything.



Torsten Bernhardt
Redpath Museum
McGill University
Montreal, QC
Canada


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