In our penultimate Hanegraaff episode, John and I take a look at how “magic,” “superstition,” and the “occult” became epithets divorced from critical reasoning, the uncomfortable overlap between occult and scientific practices, and I deliver a brief monologue on how all of this shows up in the work of HP Lovecraft.
Thanks for this! Speaking of Star Wars, the opening scroll apparently originally set the story in the distant future, and was only changed to the distant past not long before the first movie was released.
I loved the point about progressivism and nostalgia being opposites and yet present in the same person at the same time.
Thanks for this! Speaking of Star Wars, the opening scroll apparently originally set the story in the distant future, and was only changed to the distant past not long before the first movie was released.