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[ill_made_knight]

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/matauryn/2018/12/07/millennial-witches
"what millennial witches really want"
well, they don't want me, lol, that's for sure.
decolonize witchcraft? what about all the gods, spirits, practices you follow taken from the colonizing powers? If you're not in Europe or Asia or Africa why do you impose those things on the landscape here in the Americas? It's not craft, it's religion and religion is one of the biggest colonizing tools.
if you are a druid in texas, a british shaman in the PacWest, a devotee of hekate, you are imposing those spirits on a land that has its own, you're a colonizer, so just drop the bullshit about decolonizing.

stop appropriating?(see above)witches are 'appropriators'. we use what works, within any paradigm/milieu. Stop appropriating titles like 'british shaman', druid, priest/ess, even witch, lol. oh, and if you have a bug up your ass about appropriation, then quit bitchin about gate keepers.

books on witchcraft? heh, well there's one of the roots of the problem. If the books from the '70's,'80's, and '90's don't hold up, why would the ones in the last 10 or 20 years be better? They aren't, due to being derivatives/continuances of the same crap. which is why witchcraft is in the sorry ass shape it's in.

witch resistance? resist the resistance! lol. as they used to say in old crete,'mess with the bull, get the horns'

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[leafshimmer]

The only thing I will say is that I know several Millennial Witches and they all "want" different things... same with the "Boomer Witches" (if that's a term?)... and everybody in between.

There's a cool little black and white film called Mala Noche, an early work by Gus van Sant, that has as its subtitle the old saying "he who plays with the bull gets the horn." Lot of truth in that.

[ill_made_knight]

dunno if boomer witch is a term heh. I don't really think the popular boundaries or groupings of boomer genx millennial apply in this case. I thinks it's more a matter of when one first gets acquainted with craft or paganisms.
I'd say we're into a third gen in modern times. I'd put myself into the tailend of the first and beginning of the second. all three still exist, the first just starting to fade. Most of the wants I see listed haven't ever been lacking in my experience, but then there really wasn't a 'pagan scene' for me to be involved in.
it wasn't until some folks decided it was something for everyone that things got soured.

[leafshimmer]

I'm sure you're well aware of this--Mat Auryn, who wrote this post, is very much a business Witch--came out of the Salem professional Tarot reading scene (I think that is still his regular job) and has become heavily involved with Chris Penczak's business "Temple of Witchcraft"--and most likely, other business concerns as well. So it's all about product, marketing, content etc. and finding new ways of packaging or arranging the same old items on the shelf. I really can't be bothered to read this kind of rubbish. At least Gordon White's podcasts do involve people getting to talk about ideas and their practical implications, even if White's discussion still always seems to make me think of a British version of Car Talk (I realize he's Australian but he sounds like a dyed-in-the-wool Brit program announcer from the BBC World Service). Yeah, I'm grumpy... LOL

[leafshimmer]

OK I just looked at the post... LOLOL.

Several of those folks have been known to me either personally or by reputation. Even though they're several people they all seem to fit into a similar category ... I'd say more but I'd be repeating myself.

[ill_made_knight]

yes, they are all business witches, they aspire to be 'influencers' as they call them now. they have a stake in painting the 'oldguard' as bogey men. they'll throw out the baby with the bathwater before the baby can talk, lol. one can't turn the people on to something new if one doesn't point out the 'apparent' failures of the old even if those are few.
it's the same old story tho, I'm reminded of an article by Mike Nichols back in the late 80's. I dug it up
http://www.witchessabbats.com/site/index.php/other-articles/old-guard-paganism