American mass culture has rapidly been replaced by giant buzzing colonies of internet influencers.
There’s a certain type of person who has been longing for “the re-enchantment of the world.” Usually a religious person, often one who can quote Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poetry at you:
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Re-enchantment is the idea that we are going to reverse the process of disenchantment that began more or less at the Enlightenment. That is, after the Enlightenment we began to look at the world as if ...
