The Nature of Enchantment
The Nature of Enchantment John Michael Greer Back in the autumn of 2020, as the Covid virus and the US presidential election monopolized headlines across the corporate media, I made a post here talking about Max Weber’s famous claim that “the disenchantment of the world” was among the core features of modernity, and the then-recent challenge leveled against that claim by Jason Josephson-Storm in his book The Myth of Disenchantment . That post and the theme it began to explore opened quite a rabbit hole into the deep places of culture and the human psyche, and I didn’t pretend to be able to wrap things up in a single essay of modest length. I finished up the post, in fact, by noting that my work on the theme was still in its early stages, and promised to post more when I’d gone further. Two years later—why, here we are. For the benefit of those readers who weren’t following this blog two years ago, and who don’t have the spare time right now to go back and read th...