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.

  • BeamBrain [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Witchcraft as an aesthetic is very much neoliberal and bourgeois.

    See: r/witchesvspatriarchy

    • EldritchMayo [he/him,comrade/them]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      God, one of the top posts is literally "RBG is the last thing standing between the US and Fascism". Of course, it was before she died. I don't know what kind of delusions you're in if you think she is the bottleneck, when the laws she upholds are based in american imperialism

    • communiste [she/her,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      witchesvpatriarchy is also an incredibly narrow sample of "witchcraft", as an aesthetic or otherwise. it would be as much a mistake to get your representative take on the whole of witchcraft from Reddit as any other niche community, Reddit itself leaning neoliberal and bourgeois