Wicca is dying?

[frauholla]

I scan Witchvox every so often and today I found this article http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=uswi&c=words&id=14905
This point of view does not match up with my own experience.  The Wiccan elders, mostly Gardnerian and a few Alexandrian, that I know say they have more than enough people seeking them out.  The problem is that many of the

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[ianphanes]

He wrote:
I’ve found that much of the ‘Wicca has failed’ belief comes from those Wiccans who experienced the great social and spiritual revolutions of the late sixties and seventies. At the time it must have seemed like Neopaganism would become a powerful social force by the turn of the millennium. Its failure to become so has soured the movement for some.

I suppose if the only "elders" one has ever known are those who became Craft *because* they were counter-cultural and perceived the Craft as counter-cultural, it could seem that "the elders" think that the Craft is failing. But only because they have a limited perception of the Craft.

My advice to him would be: Avoid spending time with individuals who expect all the problems in the world to be solved in one generation--whether this generation or the last one. Go find people who are more interested in making things better in the present than lamenting about the past.

I'm not using the word Wicca in my response because I think he is using the word Wicca to mean all of Modern Pagan Witchcraft. So that's what I'm addressing. (Given the emphasis on the counter-culture, I suspect the "elders" he knows were influenced by West Coast Craft rather than BTW.)