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Intelligence agencies. All those are acronyms for them. And they do sort of BREED, so that trad pregnancy thing would fit
I received this today. I have to say, this deck really surprised me. Not what I was expecting at all.
It is basically a deck about the USA and all the great things they have contributed to the world. All that is important in world culture and history is basically attributed to the innovations and wonders of the USA. It's really quite unsubtle. I mean, there's nothing wrong with feeling patriotism and love/fascination for one's history but this deck is a little bit one-sided in its history of the world. I wonder what it is supposed to mean to non-USA citizens?
60 out of 78 cards are about the USA and what they have done for culture, knowledge and civilization. Even those that figure non-American citizens - i.e William Blake - are significant because they had an effect on - you guessed it - America. It ends up sounding a little inward looking. William Blake matters because he influenced the beat poets. English scientists matter because they went to the USA. The Empress card feature lots of other countries but the USA is mentioned twice.
It's really very US-centred. I'm sure it'll be very meaningful for Americans but it has that tone of "American culture is the world", which can get people's backs up. Is that too controversial a thing to say?
I really didn't expect the deck to be like this. As a European I'm not quite sure what this is supposed to mean to me but there you go. A bit of a surprise...
Yes, I knew she was British. I know her work. It was also published in the UK. I'm also not "passing judgement" on the deck; I'm just noting first observations... And many, though by no means all, of these characters are familiar to me from counter-culture reading. I'm also a direct descendent of the man on the 10 of Pentacles...You realize it was made by a British artist, right?
Here is a short bio of Suzanne Triester.
http://ensemble.va.com.au/Treister/info/bio.html
I don't think the deck is a celebration of American culture though at this point I am not ready to make any major pronouncements about it. I don't want to pass judgement on the deck too quickly.
I think using the deck and doing some deep research guided by it could be very fruitful.
YMMV.
I was wondering about that!I'm also a direct descendent of the man on the 10 of Pentacles...
HEXEN 2.0 charts, within a framework of post-WWII U.S. governmental and military imperatives, the coming together of scientific and social sciences through the development of cybernetics, the history of the internet, the rise of Web 2.0 and increased intelligence gathering, and implications.