Trickster Jumps Sides (Re-Issued for Tricky Times)

The Emerald

Joshua Schrei

Religion & Spirituality, Trance, Mythology, Culture, Society & Culture, Shamanism, Arts, Justice, Entheogens, Spirituality, Cosmology, Art, History

4.8 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Tricksters and culture disruptors populate global mythology. From Loki to Coyote to Èṣù and Hermes, they bend rules, cross boundaries, commit deliberate and unintentional offenses and generally mess with established orders. Yet they are often seen as indispensable to these orders — they are renewers and cultural innovators and often pave the way for great change. So in many cultures, Tricksters, despite their shenanigans, are seen as sacred. In modern society, we have no such ritualization of...

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. I'm Josh, and this is The Emerald,
0:10.2	currents and trends through a mythic lens.
0:13.6	The podcast where we explore an ever-changing world and our lives in it
0:18.1	through the lens of myth, story, and imagination.
0:26.8	The Emerald.
0:28.6	All that's happening on this green jewel in space. Good morning, everyone.
0:43.7	It's April Fool's Day.
0:45.9	And on this Day of Fools, I feel it's high time to reintroduce ourselves to a character who,
0:53.4	how shall we say it, has had a very busy few years.
0:58.0	In 2021, I released an episode called Trickster Jumps Sides, Disruption and the Anatomy of Culture,
1:05.6	about the particular force, the particular persona, the particular change agent, known in mythic traditions the world over, as trickster.
1:17.3	Trickster, the disruptor.
1:19.6	Trickster, the culture, renewer.
1:21.7	I did this episode because it's impossible, I feel, to truly understand the mythic cultural and even sociopolitical forces at play in the world today,
1:32.5	without understanding trickster. That perpetual force of disruption and renewal. That tipper of sacred cows,
1:41.8	who is, shall we say, having his way in the world these days.
1:46.9	All across the world, we see the disruption of established orders.
1:51.6	In 2024, nearly every major global election saw the incumbent party lose.
1:57.8	People voted for something new, everywhere.
2:04.1	Left went right, right went left, which means that taken as a whole, people weren't concerned as much with either side. They were mostly
2:10.3	concerned with toppling whatever was standing there. When the whole world says, whatever is the status quo, we don't want that.
2:20.9	That is the voice of Trickster, the culture disruptor.
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