Paganistan: Notes from the Secret Commonwealth
In Which One Midwest Man-in-Black Confers, Converses & Otherwise Hob-Nobs with his Fellow Hob-Men (& -Women) Concerning the Sundry Ways of the Famed but Ill-Starred Tribe of Witches.
Maybe We're Not Quite As Radical As We Like to Think We Are
Back in the heady days of Early American Paganism, a certain BNP (Big-Name Pagan) learned that the FBI had amassed a file on him.
He was ecstatic. Talk about credibility.
When Congress passed the Freedom of Information Act in 1967, he immediately sent off for his very own copy of his very own FBI file.
For weeks, he waited impatiently.
Dangerous revolutionary thinker, he expected. Subversive radical.
Said file duly arrived by mail, and was eagerly torn open.
Harmless religious fanatic, it (in essence) said.
To his credit, said BNP frequently thereafter told this story on himself.
Pagans. Maybe we're not quite as radical, subversive, or revolutionary as we might like to think.
Maybe that's just fine.
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