Plague of The "Educated"

There is something that has been dwelling in the back of my mind of late and I think I may not be the only one to have noticed this but... there are rather a lot of Educated Idiots lately aren't there?

If this seems a bit odd, let me simply ask a question. Why?

Not any specific why but just Why? More than the What? or the ever present When? or How? But the Why? And Perhaps another important question the Who? and the Where?

I'm aware this sounds confusing and a bit all over the place but Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?

Simple questions anyone can ask. And yet... So few do. And this. This is the crux of what is plaguing so much of the modern world, the inability to ask proper questions. Or then to question what those answers may imply, or if the answers given are indeed valid. For example I shall use the sphere I am typically placed into, that of the pagan.

People will build grand tapestries of hypothesis' and worldviews off of the idea of Hollow Earth taking the example of the European Fae and Underworlds as Proof!

Only neither the Fae nor despite their names the "Underworlds" are actually under the earth, but in other realms.

Another example is one of archaeology where an endless cavalcade of shapes, stick figures and amorphous carvings are labeled "Odin". In so doing the archaeologist will gain much needed media attention that his find otherwise would've lacked, but because no one asks the honest question if this random bearded man or stick with limbs is Odin a series of zealots, desperate to demand that it is so, will concoct all manner of excuses for why it is most assuredly Odin when anyone decries with childlike innocence, that it is simply a stick figure.

There are many more examples, more than would fit in a post I daresay. But in a world awash in nonsense and people building a name for themselves off of other peoples guesswork and propaganda remember the most powerful weapon and bullshit detector at your disposal.

The Question.

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Why You Aren't Finding "Ethnic Pagans"

Recently I was, against my better judgement, in an argument, well actually 2 simultaneous arguments with opposite ends of the Spectrum of what we call the Pagan Sphere, the results were surreal.

One side could best be described as akin to Norse Wiccans feeling their way through it and mostly repeating the jargon of Runes, Skål, Allfather, Valhalla! While the other was cloaked in academic veracity but spoke with their own dogmatic jargon of Indo-European, Sky-Father, Etymology and Experts Agree! Both sides began the argument for the same reason and had much the same response Odin is the all powerful Main God of Aryan/Norse! Whether they called him All father or Sky Father and sometimes both.

What was most shocking to me was that all other gods were relegated to unimportant nonentities. One side describing all other gods as "Some Random" while the other claimed that "the Gods pray to Odin just as we do".

Neither side knew nor cared about any folk traditions even speaking of them derogatorily as "Fairy Tales". How can you know who or what a God or people are if their story means nothing to you?
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Odin is just the most egregious example of this, the main difference between each sides rendering of a new one true god seems to be whether they have his portrait painted like Conan the Barbarian or Strawberry Shortcake.

Other Gods and tribes have suffered the same indignity all minutia or personality stripped from them The Morrigan for the Gaels or Zeus for the Greeks. Made into an all powerful being without distinct traits, no different from the Christian customs of a Build-a-Bear-Religion. Do you prefer God with one eye or two? Pussy or Penis?

How can you be Ethnic Pagan if you don't care about any Ethnic Traditions beyond how it can be conflated into some grand universalist narrative? The peoples own history, culture and relationship to the Gods all but disposed of, meaningless fluff to the core of the One True.

How is this ethnic?

@Hyperborean Radio (Uncensored)