I can’t answer the witchcraft/occult context because I don’t know that. What I c

I can’t answer the witchcraft/occult context because I don’t know that. What I can tell you is that all of us seek novelty, and consumption is easier than production, and the more money you have the more consumption you can engage in, and so you start looking for novelties to consume that are rare and emotionally activating – this encourages odd habits.

It’s one thing if you’re prosocial, and mentally and emotionally stable, and from a tradition and class that favors productivity and excellencies over experiences. Many people you’re referring to are from classes that obtain satisfaction to consumption and experience rather than production, capitalization, and excellencies: the nouveau rich so to speak.

I don’t want to go into too many details but it sort of like people who get into porn or sex or drugs or risk have to find novelties because they become desensitized to lesser stimulations.

This is why it’s useful to stay focused on something productive, and to develop stoic and ascetic tastes – so you don’t direct your time, energy, attention, and wealth to desensitizing novelties.