Roger Sandall’s book: ‘The Culture Cult: Designer Tribalism And Other Essays‘ here.
A follow-up essay here springing from a discussion: ‘The Culture Cult revisited’
Sandall:
‘But in the year 2000, with Fascism and Communism both discredited, why, I wondered, were so many turning back toward Rousseau? What was the attraction of romantic primitivism? How had ethnic culture become a beau ideal? Cities certainly have their problems, but why did New Yorkers see tribal societies as exemplary and tribespeople as paragons of social virtue?’
Trending On Twitter today via Bloomberg:
Thees indigenous people of the amazon havin’ a reunion is mood-Kidpic.twitter.com/uZVIJUHuim
— KidDr1ft (@KidDr1ft) April 10, 2019
Update: A reader links to another tweet:
So many human-like species _almost_ made it to the present, but went extinct in just the last 100,000 years. Here’s another newly discovered one….https://t.co/5aR2rEOk37
— Geoffrey Miller (@primalpoly) April 10, 2019