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The Year of Magical Thinking – The New Inquiry

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Viral manifestation logics imagine that everyone else is an NPC

In a year subsumed by grief — mass death, fascist overtures — several phatic idioms emerged, hollowly and narrowly delineating our protracted and unfortunate global situation. “New Normal” was one such euphemism, thick with inattention and irresponsibility, flatly and vacuously describing a year fractured by extreme precarity. Other idioms from this past year were less descriptive and more prescriptive, blithely grafted from New Age bric-a-brac. My algorithm was increasingly preoccupied with “manifesting” and “raising one’s higher vibrational frequencies,” offering up several new horizons of p

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