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2017-08-28 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
The Coming Age of Magic
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Posted by Fred 2017-08-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 Not much Magic without power.
Posted by Skidmark 2017-08-28 00:58||   2017-08-28 00:58|| Front Page Top

#2 I have a refurbished iPhone. I can't get it to plant seeds or herd cattle. I can't find an application for that.
Posted by Ulains Thuque6389 2017-08-28 03:12||   2017-08-28 03:12|| Front Page Top

#3 An excellent post at Belmont Club. Here's the money quote that made my brain click for hours yesterday:

This idea we should be protected from our own choices may have taken deeper root than commonly realized. The right of everyone to be stupid AND avoid the consequences has become mainstreamed as the equality of outcomes. Liberation from causality is the cornerstone of "compassion", consequently it is the fundamental positive right offered by all paternalistic states.


I would add one thing to Wretchard's commentary: Many forms of magic require instruments of magical power for the magic to work. Even the wizards of Harry Potter's world require wands to function. The core rage of the mystical Left is that Trump and the Deplorables have seized the Magic Cauldron of Federal Government.
Posted by ptah  2017-08-28 09:45|| http://crusaderwarcollege.org  2017-08-28 09:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Two lines from it that stand out:
"As every believer of magic knows enchanted objects and special words are the key to changing reality. One destroys white supremacy by toppling statues of Stonewall Jackson, just like a voodoo doll."
"The belief that a college degree provides an exit ramp out poverty, whether the recipient of the degree received any substantive education or not is eerily similar to the cargo cult belief that "ritualistic acts such as the building of an airplane runway will result in the appearance of material wealth".
Posted by ed in texas 2017-08-28 10:07||   2017-08-28 10:07|| Front Page Top

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