Really interesting modernist take. I would say there is a mistreatment and reductionistic mischaracterization of the current age as a “void”. Further, the choi

Really interesting modernist take. I would say there is a mistreatment and reductionistic mischaracterization of the current age as a “void”. Further, the choice of paganism (belief) and the “void” is a false dichotomy. Post-structuralism partially developed as a response to the “void”. I don’t think you can faithfully engage with post-structural ideas and simply write it off as nonsense—they seem to answer a lot of the questions in the article. Particularly the part where the author suggests atheists form a sort of pseudo-religion. I think post-structuralism deals with how to operate when left only with belief and narrative (i.e. only the pseudo-pagan performance). The conclusions in the article seem very similar to post-structural first principles/common strands of thinking. Of course, you could write off those post-structural ideas as non-sense because it attempts to make sense of nothing (literally, the “void”). Sort of a garbage in garbage out scenario. I could probably write a whole essay in response, so to cut it short I just said “post-structural ideas”, which, in fairness, is broad, generally a very loaded term, and in need of some more elaboration.