This whole piece is very satisfying, but the following really hit home:
System Hubris.
SO fucking tired about hearing about how X is the real deal because it is 1) written in a renaissance grimoire 2) an African Diasporic Tradition 3) uses proper herbs and ingredients 4) doesnt use any herbs or ingredients 5) makes the best use of energetics 6) has no use for “energy” in magic … You get the idea. Pick one or make your own.
Basically if you can do something really fucking amazing repeatedly, please teleport your wizardly ass over here and shit your alchemical gold brick on my coffee table. I will accept that you really have done something well beyond what other systems are doing. Until then, I dont want to hear about how Crowley and GD are lame and get no results, but you do.
If you have to piss in someone else’s cup to make me think your water is sweet, I am not even gonna taste it.
—Jason Miller, “Things We Need to Escape the Gravity of“
The Druid's Well 