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.

    • Grimble [he/him,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Yes. This is exactly what I've been wanting to say for so long but I was worried I'd come across as an epic enlightened atheist. Not exaggerating, as a middle class white dude literally everyone I've met who genuinely believes in witchcraft, astrology or fucking "manifesting" (literal toddler-brained shit) is either an obnoxious petty-bourgeois white girl or a weird perverted old guy.