![]() ![]() ![]() A more benign example of this can be seen among progressive millennials who identify as witches or who practice an array of new age techniques, such as reading tarot cards, horoscopes, or certain forms of meditation. As ridiculous and abhorrent as its charges may be, they point to a definite increase in magical thinking in our political discourse. A case in point is the global ascendancy of the far-right conspiracy group, QAnon, which paints Donald Trump as a world savior against an elite cabal of Satanic pedophiles. Sometimes these challenges take on a millenarian character, heralding the end of an epoch or the dawning of a new age. Times of widespread crisis often challenge conventional ways of being in and seeing the world. Recoloured by Hugo Heikenwaelder, 1998, CC BY-SA 2.5.
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