Source: The Culturist
The resurgence of “re-enchantment” as cultural currency signals a fundamental rejection of the disenchanted rationalism that governed the past century—meaning we’re witnessing a mass permission structure for mystery, ambiguity, and unknowability to re-enter public discourse after decades of scientism’s stranglehold on legitimacy. This isn’t nostalgia; it’s the cognitive exhaustion of late modernity finally cracking the edifice of total explanatory systems, creating space for spiritual, mythological, and deliberately-ambiguous frameworks to rebrand themselves as intellectual sophistication rather than superstition.