This essay is not leftist and was published by a strongly conservative publisher. It contains too many unnecessary literary flourishes, however.
My mistake! I lost patience with all the European Man, African Man and Indigenous Man generalizations and assumed this piece was going in a somewhat similar direction to the slimes article it was responding to.
“Primordial cosmogony was always in flux, dependent on the weather, the unruly demons, or the ineffable gods who ruled the cosmos, or the tribal chiefs who had access to them and whose whims and moods determined the moods and nature of the gods themselves.”
The names and titles have changed but other than that it does not sound much different than what we have today... I think that European man is regressing.
Should have said “articles” within the project that the author was responding to.