vote: no.
Find 90% of them unintelligent.
Down-to-earth... maybe, but novelty sacrificed.
there are a few around very smart, but tend to be behind the scenes.
pub culture has always been overly-masculine.
not my cup of tea.
the shamans in this culture are in prison,
dead (suicide),
in mental institutions,
in the wilderness,
out on organic farms,
and..... right here
find me a culture where the pressure for sameness is more totalitarian.
for shamans it's a nightmare.
i'm 100% definite our genetics has been sourly affected by 200 years of factory-like work conditions.
no shaman can be cubicilised, or subjected to the grandoise masculinities of tradie culture for long.
you can tell how many shaman genes are left in a culture, by seeing where people can work for themselves
how many independent farms are left,
how many people still live off the rainforests in communities.
where laws and police are few.
how much anger is directed towards the system.
we are persecuted,
our lives and minds are illegal,
and when we don't break the law,
they make up new ones.