[UA] Old groups and power

[Michael Dinowitz]

> >Is it that the stratosphere is now modern and rejects all older magics? So 
> that >means at some point all of those tribes we know nothing about in South 
> America >have just up and lost their magic even though they have no 
> connection at all to the >'modern world'.
> >It just lacks something in my opinion.
> 
> According to canon conceit, the Postmodern philosophical movement and other 
> modern changes have altered the collective unconscious to the point that old 
> magic no longer works. Seems a bit off, I agree, but at least it's a series 
> of events rather than an arbitary date.

I just wouldn't apply that to everyone and everywhere. If the collective unconscious is universal and applys itself to everyone then we'd all be using Chinese or Indian magic rather than 'modern' variants. I just think the logic of the canon needs to be re-examined and clarified. The collective unconscious is not collective. There are levels to it. The primative, universal level where universal archetypes live and the segmented, group based one that is where the 'modern magic' is existing. Post Modern magic would work perfectly in places that are post modern in thought but when put into places where the cultural unconscious says something different, its in trouble. A bibliomancer in the middle of somewhere where there are no books and NO CONCEPT of books should be in deep trouble. 


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