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I wonder what is the underlying urge behind the woo purveyors. There is more than a lifetime’s worth of weird trippy stuff that is 100% legit. There’s no need
by stallmanite 7y ago
I wonder what is the underlying urge behind the woo purveyors. There is more than a lifetime’s worth of weird trippy stuff that is 100% legit. There’s no need to muddy the waters; mystery abounds in the real world.
- ben_w 7y agoI was briefly interested in woo as a teenager — Wicca, telekinesis, shapeshifting, that sort of thing. One of the fascinating oddities I learned from that period is that several different founding mothers of Wicca — Valiente and Farrar come to mind — met people who thought the rituals they has created around and soon after WW2 were actually thousands of years old. I can’t put the connection into words, but it feels like this is related to “Joy in the Merely Real”: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/x4dG4GhpZH2hgz59x/joy-in-the-merely-real https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/x4dG4GhpZH2hgz59x/joy-in-the... Plus a dash of the way a beginner can totally misunderstand words of art and invent their own totally inaccurate understanding of what’s going on.
- tux1968 7y agoIt's hard to be an expert in Legit. You're instantly the sole authority on woo you invent.