This has actual effects on the world. Stuff that wouldn't be possible before is NOW possible because of the training. Like doing a pullup or juggling.
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Every 'evil' or 'bad' person is much closer to who you think you are than you might imagine. As is every 'hero' and 'heroine'.
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Some nice old lady brings joy to people on both sides of a dispute? Find her and tell her to demand that she show you the magic trick. That is... if you really care about resolving the conflict. It's easier to ignore such people as not high-minded enough to see the problem.
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"We share the same soul, the same spark of consciousness." "Lol grandma is nice but uneducated. She doesn't understand that those people should be hated and we have nothing to learn from them."
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Summarizing a bit: Your ability to do magic increases as you are able to weave more and more complex situations into a rainbow tapestry. Most people don't care to learn from grandma's weaving.
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Dancers would have been the magicians at one time. Then storytellers, then storywriters. In fact everyone is a magician. The rainbow is conscious existence. The former examples are especially magical b/c they are *group* magic. They make groups do the impossible.
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There's something that has always felt off to me about how highly valued STEM is. It's not that is shouldn't be, but that it groups together fields such as engineering (which is application) and science, which is exploratory and could just as well be grouped into music or art imo
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The only reason they seem far apart is because their math requirements are so far apart and the math education often so bad.
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Music for example doesn't require a strong math education b/c it so full of heuristics and mimesis that first principle reasoning isn't necessary. (Despite how mathematical music can be.)
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Some cultures have too much dying impotent magic and refuse to touch STEM. Some have the opposite problem. They refuse to touch magic with a 10 foot pole even as they die in their sterile virtual realities.
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Politicians are technically social magicians as well but they're like overly robotic and algorithmic with the magic. Instead of wielding it by being especially in-tune with Flow they actively disregard Flow as something to be managed and minimized. They're illusionists.
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Instead of real magic where the impossible is made possible they can only temporarily trick people into thinking the impossible was done.
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A bad politician tries to build a company around a gag April fool's impossible product. They fooled others so well that they fooled themselves into believing their own trick. A good politician never reveals the trick. They play the role of Eternal Hope.
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Summarizing a bit: individual magic ability is being increased as social magic ability is being destroyed. STEM cultists created the Wand of Instagram and try in vain to act as social magicians.
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