There is a growing genre of tech writing that studiously pretends that a sort of ironic apathy towards technological literacy is the same thing as magical belief systems. It is not. This is an example of this genre.http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/11/in-2029-the-internet-will-make-us-act-like-peasants.html …
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Basically, this so-called postmodern peasant is simply someone who has some mix of laziness, indifference, and lack of curiosity about, how modern technology works, and a rational assessment that they're probably not smart enough to understand most of it.
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This does not of course preclude belief in specific superstitious ideas and conspiracy theories, but the general, default epistemology is not magical thinking for most people. It is simply a kind of rational laziness that can look like it under certain behavioral lenses.
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The magic beliefs are not in horoscopes. They are in things like diet and politics. Straws, or unplugging cell phone chargers, to save the planet is a magical belief.
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