[UA] A potentiallly UAable profession

[Dylan Craig]

A couple of the seats in my mom's postgrad Philosophy classes in previous years
have always been occupied by members of the local Muslim Judicial Council (MJC).
It falls to this group to review new concepts and technology entering society -
from corneal transplants to CD-writers, as one guy put it - and figure out how
they can be backward-referenced to items already defined as acceptable (halaal)
or unacceptable to South African Muslims; hence, whether they are sanctioned or
forbidden for use/consumption/whatever.

I'm sure this group has parallels in both Judaism and Christianity; but what
struck me was the process itself. Modern concepts are taken and boiled down to
their essential parts in an attempt to relate them to some existing concept - a
lot like the pomo process of Archetype creation/channelling is presented in UA.
Corneal transplants are related back to some medieval concepts much the same way
that a little league coach is related back to the True King, or the Athlete, or
whatever. Now, because the MJC guys' responsibility involves being well-informed
about modern trends and somewhat removed, objectively, from the world they
study, one wonders - in the UA world - whether there might not be a place for a
group of MJC clerics who have taken their 'dissect and study' skills and applied
them to the wonders of the statosphere. Might make for an interesting TNI
think-tank.

--
"When you hear sweet syncopation / And the music softly moans
T'ain't no sin to take off your skin / And dance around in your bones"
Dylan Craig · Writer and Historian · Cape Town, South Africa
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