Syncretism from Serenity

[noobiechickenlady]

I found this to be a very interesting read.
http://wilderix.wordpress.com/2007/08/06/syncretism-from-serenity/

Take the two concepts (1) the culture you came from and (2) the culture of the land you now inhabit, and see how they can mesh. What you want to make should not simply throw back to the past in an attempt to recreate historyeven the working history of the cultures that used to live before civilization. Instead, we have to make a new culture that reaches back into the past to weave some of the things that worked then into a new thing that will work in the futureour future. I cannot become an Osage simply because I live in the land they used to inhabit. I cannot become a Pict or a Cherokee simply because I carry genes from those people. But I can become a new thing that I build from the examples of the old. Anyone who wants to live a feral life must do just that.