[UA] Old groups and power

[Brian Covey]

How about you just draw a sharp dividing line between the industrialized 
world and the rest of it? Sorta how they dealt with it in Godlike? One 
set of rules for first world societies and a whole different gig for 
those societies that don't have as much access to the body of knowledge 
that makes up "the collective unconscious"?

So, if you were raised on Mr. Rogers, Happy Meals, and People magazine, 
faking some ancient  school of magic involving sheep entrails won't 
work, because deep, deep down, you're still taking everything with a 
grain of salt. But if you're a fifth-generation yak herder in nepal, 
it'd work just fine, since you believe in such things as much as you 
believe in rain or wind.

Or maybe UA was just written to focus almost exclusively on city-rat 
mages with access to handguns, brand-name distilled liquor, and other 
trappings of 20th century technology, and trying to shoehorn everything 
into a Grand Unified Theory is going to be as hard to do for metaphysics 
as it is in the non-meta variety...

BWC


> 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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