- Interesting idea from Greta: 'Autism is a gift'. Exactly the attitude taken by 'archaic' cultures: Archived Message
Posted by Rhisiart Gwilym
on April 25, 2019, 8:11 am, in reply to "Re: Interesting contrast between the Board's general view of Greta Thurnberg and Shamima Begum"
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that people showing unusual psychological profiles should be seen as probable recruits to their corp of shamans, because - clearly - they have special gifts. Apropos of this, Greta is Norsk, and Norge still has live contact with the ancient, still-persisting shamanistic culture of their Sami citizens in the north. So - not exactly a surprise to me to hear that she views her condition as a special gift. Contrast what happens to such people in traditional cultures and in our 'advanced', reductive-materialism-scientism obsessed culture. Here, such psychological endowments as autism/aspergers are regarded as handicaps and illnesses, and treated with drug-clubs, institutionalisation and marginalisation - which does indeed drive the victims into frank, despairing madness. In shamnic cultures, they are encouraged - though not forced - to take up an apprenticeship with an older, mentoring shaman, where their special gifts are encouraged to blossom into the full shamanic purpose: to be the healers and truth-seekers for their whole society; which Greta certainly seems to be doing. Regarding Shamima: When her story first broke, I was on record here saying words to the effect that the wild-goose impulses of scatty mid-teenies should scarcely be held up as proof of wickedness, since such youngsters are full of boiling energy, and particularly prone to being led astray by half-baked ideas which they're in no position to recognise as such. Before reaching 20 Shamima went through time as a comfort-girl for at least one DA'ESH guerrilla, gave birth to at least one infant, and saw it promptly die, because of the ghastly mess into which the remnants of DA'ESH have now been cooped in Idlib/Turkish Kurdistan. I advocated then, as I do still, that she should be treated with considerate leniency, should be allowed to return to her - obviously-concerned - family, and shouldn't have any threat to her status as an authentic Brit citizen. She should then be sympathetically helped to get on with her life here as just a normal Brit, and to grow into a clearer understanding of her youthful escapade. That would be the enlightened, actually-civilised, actually-peace-making response; though not in May's Nastyparty-Britain, of course. |