Tara Isabella Burton: "The Rise Of Progressive Occultism: Or Why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Felt Compelled To Share Her Birth Chart"

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(a) I've mentioned here a couple of times that a notable thing about paleo-political-correctness was that its heyday was also the heyday of the "new age" movement, i.e. a kind of occultism/spiritualism with a lot of crystal-rubbing and yoga. Paleo-PC had a philosophical side (postmodernism) and a political side proper (PC). All three of these movements (pomo, PC, new age) were anti-rationalist. I've long wondered whether some form of neo-new-age-ism would show up again now that neo-PC is rampaging across the land.
(b) There's really not all that much difference anyway. Neo-PC is already an anti-rationalist view that contains thinly-concealed magical ideas. As I've said, stronger versions of "social constructionism" would better be called social creationism, as they seem to entail that we can bring things into existence by the power of collective belief--or at least alter their properties (which is no less a trick). (Of course social constructionism survives on the motte-and-bailey tactic...so it's always got plausible deniability...) Transgenderism and the progressive idea of identity as identification both sidle up to magical thinking, as they both entail that we can alter facts (about ourselves) with mere thoughts and words. It's difficult or impossible to distinguish such views from magic...