"It’s as simple as it is inevitable: the tighter the rationalist clenches his fist, if you will, the more of the universe of possible human experience slips through his fingers."
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"...rationalist movements in their final years, when it finally becomes impossible to ignore those things any longer, always end up making peace with the realms of magic, myth, and religion they‘ve previously spent so many years and so much effort denouncing."
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"...the magic or the esoteric religion of a waning civilization ends up absorbing the heritage of that civilization’s broken-down rationalism, repurposing it to cope with the unmet needs of its time, and placing it in a context of practice..."
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"Magic... is the reset button for minds that have allowed their worlds, their representations, to get out of sync with the reality those representations are meant to describe. ... [A]t certain times... that’s necessary for entire societies."
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it's nice to find another blog whose contents i just want to hoover into my brain like a hungry hungry hippo. been awhile since the last one
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Only read bits from there, but I like this one!
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yeah i went through the well of galabes posts the other day, great stuff, lots to chew on
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Ah I hadn't worked out that 'the well of galabes' was a specific section, really don't know how to navigate that blog!
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there's the main blog posts that have "previous" and "next" buttons and the well of galabes posts are archives from a previous blog which don't. slightly unfortunate
