I want some objections to sharpen my own thinking about occult stuff. Assuming "magic" is using personal directed will to affect reality external to your body, give me your best questions or objections for why it can't work. Example: Why don't very smart people believe in it?
“Smart” is synonymous with “Rational” nowadays which isn’t always the case. The intellectual and the artist are often the same. Hyperrationality is prized whenever the machines are powerful and have a central role, and computers are very powerful machines.
