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# Tolkien’s Guide to Re-Enchantment
- URL: https://adjacent.media/signals/tolkiens-guide-to-re-enchantment/
- Published: 2026-03-28T22:18:16.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-02T09:57:15.000Z
- Description: 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...
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #signal, theme-culture, design

Source: [The Culturist](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kmtj448rc9z11xhng75cfpfq?ref=adjacent.media)

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.