It is not thoughtless rebellion, nor is it prettified and packaged by New Age shops. Magick doesn’t require a college degree.
Magicians know, just like the garment worker in Bangladesh, the immigrants in Europe and Dubai, and American fast food workers, that they are getting fucked and it’s the entire system that’s fucking them.
Those in the service of tradition and institutionalized faith are of no use to me. If you can’t break your own shackles, how do you expect to break reality?