I think that a lot of problems come down to the fact that more and more people do not understand how anything works, and would rather pretend it's simple than learn the truth (if they even could)

If you think of magic as a placeholder explanation for a process that people know happens but don't know why, this would explain the resurgence of magical thinking.

........but is it though?

"Sorry, I can't go out, my blouse crashed and my pants are running ransomware that demands that I let them mine $85 million worth of Bitcoin or they'll autopilot me to the death camps."

reverse the animation and make them spawn like this