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on the atlas — 2

• Rational Magic — The New Atlantis3 savers
• Siddharth on Twitter: "starting to feel very resistant towards participating in discourse about the meta - about worldview, interpersonal dynamics, the nature of people, approaches to life, etc. it’s very easy to get involved in, and is very popular, but feels fundamentally wrong to me" / Twitter1 savers

highlights — 1

• There’s the rise of what you could call popular neo-Jungianism: figures like Jordan Peterson, who point to the power of myth, ritual, and a relationship to the sacred as a vehicle for combating postmodern alienation — often in uneasy alliance with traditionalist Christians. (A whole article could be written on Peterson’s close intellectual relationship with Roman Catholic Bishop Robert Barron.) There’s the progressive-coded version you can find on TikTok, where witchcraft and activism and sage cleansing and “manifesting” co-exist in a miasma of vibes. There’s the openly fascist version lurking…

  Rational Magic — The New Atlantis