• Details the magical war that took place behind the scenes of the 2016 election
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Examines in detail the failed magical actions of Trump’s opponents,
with insights on political magic from Dion Fortune’s war letters
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Reveals the influence of a number of occult forces from Julius Evola to
chaos magick to show how the political and magical landscape of
American society has permanently changed since the 2016 election
Magic and politics seem like unlikely bedfellows, but in The King in Orange,
author John Michael Greer goes beyond superficial memes and extreme
partisanship to reveal the unmentionable realities that spawned the
unexpected presidential victory of an elderly real-estate mogul turned
reality-TV star and which continue to drive the deepening divide that is
now the defining characteristic of American society.
Greer
convincingly shows how two competing schools of magic were led to
contend for the presidency in 2016 and details the magical war that took
place behind the scenes of the campaign. Through the influence of a
number of occult forces from Julius Evola to chaos magicians, as well as
the cult of positive thinking, Greer shows that the main contenders in
this magical war were the status quo magical state, as defined by the
late scholar Ioan Couliano, which has repurposed the “manipulative
magic” techniques of the Renaissance magi into the subliminal techniques
of modern advertising, and an older, deeper, and less reasonable form
of magic--the “magic of the excluded”--which was employed by chaos
magicians and alt-right internet wizards whose desires coalesced in the
form of a frog avatar that led the assault against the world we knew.
Examining
in detail the magical actions of Trump’s opponents, with insights on
political magic from occultist Dion Fortune’s war letters, the author
discusses how the magic of the privileged has functioned to keep the
comfortable classes from being able to respond effectively to the
populist challenge and how and why the “Magic Resistance,” which tried
to turn magic against Trump, has failed.
Showing how the
political and magical landscape of American society has permanently
changed since the 2016 election cycle, Greer reveals that understanding
the coming of the King in Orange will be a crucial step in making sense
of the world for a long time to come.
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