An Apocalyptic Meditation on Doomscrolling

- Erik Davis

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/an-apocalyptic-meditation-on-doomscrolling/

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Does he actually believe in magic?

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.'

Gonna boost this article cos it seems relevant and I feel like it. I particularly like the doom/scroll Revelations ref.

You might not agree with everything written here, but I think it's worth a read.

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