Platonism seems to be the current gateway drug to every flavour of traddy weirdness (if not to say actual traddy b-s), from Tolkien to Charles Coulombe's thoughts on the Latin Mass and "western Hermeticism" to Stephen C Lovatt's "gay traditionalism" to Tom Rowsell's "neo-paganism".
Why is this? I don't know. In order to find out I suspect I'd have to go back and read a lot more Plato than I have any great desire to.
My feeling though is that it's got something to do with a desire for a detachment from the boring mundane reality of the materially perceptible world.
And let's face it, whether you're into elves, Latin Masses, magic, old gods or bum-sex (or all five!), there are times when that's quite a comforting thing.
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