[UA] Magick and the New Deal?

[Tim Groth]

Perhaps it was an attempt to stop the appearance of Plutomancy.

Money has always had power, symbolic power especially.  I'm sure there
were previous money schools of magick.  With the stock market, the
symbolic tension goes up.  And in the roaring twenties everyone was
financially and emotionally invested in the market, and rolling in the
dough.

Then comes the crash.  Only those with the most traditional sources of
wealth (property is the biggie here if I remember correctly) remain
anywhere near high on the hog.  Suddenly, the image of money is
shifted by becoming scarce.  The market is a terrible beast.  People
have sacrificed themselves on its altar.  The occult vultures move in.

Now, with the New Deal there is an effort to alter the way that money
and all the things it represents interacts with the common person in
order to alter the metaphysical context of the magick that is flowing
out of cash.  Maybe it was too late and Plutomancy could rise up.  Or
maybe it managed to make Plutomancy into something instead of the
blackest of magicks.

However, with current financial issues looming, there may be another
money-magick crash.  And who knows what sort of sorcery a buck will
buy after.

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 9:39 PM, Dean Reilly <deanreilly77 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I can see this working.  Maybe you can tie the New Deal magic to the
> beginning of the nuclear age- Oppenheimer's quoting of the Bhagavad Gita at
> the first atomic bomb test, as ritual, etc.  Perhaps  FDR decided that
> Smalltown America was a necessary sacrifice to bring about the creation of
> the unkillable zombie America, an nation capable of surviving the Second
> World War and the times that would follow.  What do you think?
>
>
>
>
> On 5/12/08, Josh MacLeod <alternity1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I'm currently running a UA campaign set in Kansas (for
> > pc-related plot reasons). Typical small city, lots of
> > ghost towns around it, and the locals claim that the
> > New Deal "destroyed it". An off-the-cuff thing, then I
> > started wondering if roosevelt - or someone - had used
> > the New Deal to work magick, and what the results
> > would have been ... and figured I'd turn to the list
> > for any ideas regarding that :) I ha e this fun image
> > of some of the older locals still working on some way
> > to "make Kansas great again".
> >
> > - Josh
> >
> >
> >
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