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The idea of enchantment/disenchantment/re-enchantment with the world keeps popping up as salient lately. I suspect there’s a memeplex there that’s a natural successor to premium mediocre and domestic cozy. Feeling kinda lazy about working it out.
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Premium mediocre: fading enchantment of second age of middle earth Domestic cozy: disenchantment and retreat STUB-CONCEPT GOES HERE??: re-enchantment (rate-limited by rate of entry into post-Covid)
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STUB CONCEPT is something at the intersection of: - a new calculus of abundance vs scarcity - a new sociality that is neither mass nor niche - changed relationships with technology, media, polit8cs - a robust new false consciousness - aestheticized climate consciousness
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Paranoid populism: Parasocial groups formed around rapid-cycling conspiratorial fantasies. Calls to action replace social solidarity. Competition creates interference patterns of re-enchantment & prevents epistemic closure. See also: early Christian syncretism, expansionism.
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Q's just a milleniarian cult. They flourish in times when people are desperate to re-frame catastrophic failures. The need for "re-enchantment" seems like an interesting context for that appeal. Climate change is likely to become the mother of all inspiration for new religion.