Recently, modern witchcraft has been on the rise. I am interested to hear some discussion and discourse from your perspective, on any aspect of modern witchcraft. Myself, I try to be respectful of most religions. That said, I have always been a little annoyed by anyone who believes they can, for example, control the weather or read peoples minds, which seems to be the case in this article, and in several witchcraft-related memes and stuff I've seen floating around. In addition, I think the whole idea of witchcraft as an opposition to the status quo is very much a bourgeois/liberal mindset. Instead of using affirmative action to actually work for change, it's turning to faith and a belief in the occult in order to solve your issues. It seems to me to be almost entirely composed of young, upper-middle class white women that have not needed to struggle or known the struggle of other classes. In essence, a liberal reaction to the people in power. Any thoughts? Willing to change my mind.
believing you have magical powers has always struck me as a delusional inflated sense of your own importance, like protagonist syndrome but worse
ultimately i don't really give a shit though, at least they don't usually try and make you see the fairy or whatever
I suppose that's true, I have never had a self proclaimed witch actually do any harm to me or anyone else. I suppose the pure inaction is somewhat offensive though: Like, it is an ideological position so similar to liberalism that it comes with the ingrained belief that strong action is far too radical. Like, the whole idea of practicing witchcraft in order to solve world issues like trump or whatever is ideologically identical to saying "vote". That said, you can draw the same comparison to this site and any terminally online movement. But at least here action is encouraged, and I can't say how many of us have really organized in a meaningful way.
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