Does he actually believe in magic?
An Apocalyptic Meditation on Doomscrolling
- Erik Davis
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/an-apocalyptic-meditation-on-doomscrolling/
Discussion
Probably in a wider sense of the term, I imagine so.
'Do not mistake any of this as a counsel of despair. Doomscrolling is a reminder, again to allude to my first book, that our everyday factual lives are woven into an uncanny and psychopathological tapestry of myth, narrative magic, and the mysticism of ultimate things — ultimate ends, ultimate voids, death writ large.'