CAREY writes:

The interesting thing to me about TV awards ceremonies, the fashion industry’s lust for all things Dark and Occult, and even Jay-Z adopting the single commandment of Thelema (‘Do what thou wilt is the whole of the law’ of Thelema) as a motto is that the people in these industries read blogs too. They’ve seen over this past year that there are quite a few people out here who have read up on the occult. And while there have always been what culturally are known as conspiracy theorists, the entertainment industry has taken notice that the people who have noticed that something is horribly wrong and have thus tried to learn more about the occult are not the typical cultural idea of that: many even-handed, calm people are now speaking up about this. So the people in the entertainment industry have seen this and have adjusted their tactical position.

They don’t deny it, they simply laugh at it all and dare anyone to call it what it is: blatant homage to very old, very evil gods and demons. Continuing with the age old idea that the best tactic Evil ever managed to come up with was convincing humanity that It doesn’t exist in any singular mind or entity—that there is no such thing as what we might call ‘Primary Evil’ (Satan) and that only the hearts of men do evil—the entertainment industry is now openly worshiping and laughing it off with the support of Western Culture. And tacit support is still support. So long as people continue to chuckle at the notion that this is even happening, the entertainment industry will simply get bolder.

I remember back in my high school days. My parents sent me to a very legalistic Baptist school for my formative years. At that time, we were shown videos monthly on the evil of rock and roll. I remember then (and for many years) just laughing it off. Motley Crue? Satanists? Hogwash! But I understand now why the school (if very poorly) tried to communicate to us the danger; the danger was not if Motley Crue (or Ozzy, etc., et al) were actually Satanists.

The danger was that during the eighties and early nineties, by showing these occult images to us on album covers for so long, and wink-wink, nodding it away, Western Culture lost sight of the truth of the symbolism. We were conditioned. There’s no getting away from a bit of cold admiration for the tactical brilliance. And yet, look where we are now.

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Bruce B. writes:

Growing up, it seemed to me that the occult was largely a white thing. Blacks were very off-put by it almost as if there was a residual respect for the religion of the older generation of black Protestants. To be frank, I always associated the occult and devil worship with lower class whites. It’s weird and disturbing that lower class white culture and lower class black culture are converging.

Henry A. writes:

Bruce B. says, “To be frank, I always associated the occult and devil worship with lower class whites.”

My experience is the opposite, I always associated the occult and devil worship with HIGHER class whites. Especially in places like London, Paris, the East Coast and others where money is. Be it the Bohemian Grove, Long Island mansions, London’s suburb manors, or chateaus around Paris. Even in pop culture, think about Rosemary’s Baby, Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut or Roman Polanski The Ninth Gate. Polanski may know what he is talking about after all.

Jeanette V. writes:

I was deeply involved in the neo-pagan “revival” (such as it was) in the 70’s.  It was largely a white, middle-class thing. It consist of narcissists who make up “traditions” by interweaving old myths with fantasy movies and novels  and pop culture.

With the rare exception I never really knew a pagan who didn’t either have severe mental health problems or physical illness. Most could never really hold down a steady job. Many have passed prematurely.

Oh, as you might have guessed most are deeply and irrationally liberal, all about protecting animals and mother earth (gaia) vegans/vegetarians while promoting abortion and all the alphabet perversions.  They all pretty much hated Christianity (I was one of the few who did not). The few sane pagans I knew were conservative (I was one of those).

And this is meme about school prayer that gets posted on social media these days.

Laura writes:

The occult has followers in all classes.

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