Cat on Nostr: npub124fpm…ajtcc TLDR: New Age is just witchcraft on capitalism. I think of it as ...
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TLDR: New Age is just witchcraft on capitalism.
I think of it as rather an 'emerging' actually. I see traditional witchcraft as drawing lines and sorting itself out and pulling away from the more New Agey stuff. I can always tell the difference now, between the love and light kinda witches and the tradcraft ones, just from the words or items they use, and I dont think that was always the case.
As far as commodification, historically, herbal remedies and charms were frequently bought and sold, just at a more local level. Once anything gets mass market, it gets shittified, that's the real problem; the New Agey stuff is just witchcraft with a capitalism infection. The blame can be put squarely on the Golden Dawn, because it would not have been brought out to our modern culture and mass marketed without Gardener and the like. Or maybe the Ferrars, with all their "white witch" bullshit, who were featured on several major talk shows, trying to sell palatable witchcraft to the masses.
It's a double-edged sword, like I want witchcraft to be more popular so I can find others and maybe not be persecuted, but also I want us to remain small so we don't turn into some strange capitalist 'brand.'
TLDR: New Age is just witchcraft on capitalism.
I think of it as rather an 'emerging' actually. I see traditional witchcraft as drawing lines and sorting itself out and pulling away from the more New Agey stuff. I can always tell the difference now, between the love and light kinda witches and the tradcraft ones, just from the words or items they use, and I dont think that was always the case.
As far as commodification, historically, herbal remedies and charms were frequently bought and sold, just at a more local level. Once anything gets mass market, it gets shittified, that's the real problem; the New Agey stuff is just witchcraft with a capitalism infection. The blame can be put squarely on the Golden Dawn, because it would not have been brought out to our modern culture and mass marketed without Gardener and the like. Or maybe the Ferrars, with all their "white witch" bullshit, who were featured on several major talk shows, trying to sell palatable witchcraft to the masses.
It's a double-edged sword, like I want witchcraft to be more popular so I can find others and maybe not be persecuted, but also I want us to remain small so we don't turn into some strange capitalist 'brand.'