There seems to be an incredible about of overlap between people who feel entitled to do malefic magic and the social justice / woke crowd.
How much of it do you think is blow black? I used to hang around a discord server of witches where the words “don’t curse shame” were used without irony and I was encouraged a few times to curse others over frankly very petty stuff (which I obviously didn’t). The attitude among this group seemed to be that blowback wouldn’t be an issue or didn’t exist because they weren’t Wiccan, or didn’t believe in the rule of 3 or the Rede, or they didn’t believe in karma or whatever.
These same individuals were always unsurprisingly going through repeated periods of bad luck and interpersonal problems. The group as a whole went absolutely hardcore into social justice and Covid craziness. I don’t associate with them anymore at all but things didn’t look pretty before I cut all contact.
It just seems to me that there’s got to be some sort of connection between groups of people who believe on one hand that the government is constantly trying to systemically oppress them somehow and that on the other hand they can do whatever nasty magic they want to dominate and control people around them and there won’t be any negative consequences for their actions simply because they’ve chosen not to believe there will be any. It’s like people who feel justified to oppress others then become deeply paranoid that society is oppressing them. Could this in itself be a form of blowback? Either way the drive to curse and the obsession with oppression both seem to speak to a deep fascination with and hunger for control.
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How much of it do you think is blow black? I used to hang around a discord server of witches where the words “don’t curse shame” were used without irony and I was encouraged a few times to curse others over frankly very petty stuff (which I obviously didn’t). The attitude among this group seemed to be that blowback wouldn’t be an issue or didn’t exist because they weren’t Wiccan, or didn’t believe in the rule of 3 or the Rede, or they didn’t believe in karma or whatever.
These same individuals were always unsurprisingly going through repeated periods of bad luck and interpersonal problems. The group as a whole went absolutely hardcore into social justice and Covid craziness. I don’t associate with them anymore at all but things didn’t look pretty before I cut all contact.
It just seems to me that there’s got to be some sort of connection between groups of people who believe on one hand that the government is constantly trying to systemically oppress them somehow and that on the other hand they can do whatever nasty magic they want to dominate and control people around them and there won’t be any negative consequences for their actions simply because they’ve chosen not to believe there will be any. It’s like people who feel justified to oppress others then become deeply paranoid that society is oppressing them. Could this in itself be a form of blowback? Either way the drive to curse and the obsession with oppression both seem to speak to a deep fascination with and hunger for control.