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What would have been the relevance of reading and being inspired by Greer, in the context of the early '00s academic Leftists? What would have been needed is a fiercer eco-radical critique in schools... but anticiv eco-radicalism always becomes scary at some point to all those believing in socially-supported values and views. Greer at best would have been better suited for the early '90s with all its witchcraft and hippie revival.

What gets bored suburban kids into occultism is the spooky sensationalism, and Greer doesn't seem to be the writer to answer to this appeal. Not even the Satanic Temple got the edge for it. I doubt occultism has any present or future... outside of fucked up neopagan neonazi types, who eventually also grow up from their suburban delusions.

The kind of critics metaphysics hinted at by early Tiqqun is the stuff that's got potential. If answered with a tenuous vision of ecology (instead of the vague commie disposition of Tiqqun), this might become a new interesting development.