they aren't even a secret ruling class. they probably could be, or they could use their powers to fix world hunger and shit, but they don't
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see the secrecy is working
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they have all the magical power in the world and they used it to spend centuries literally shitting themselves
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god i'm so mad now. i hate wizards so much
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i can't believe jk rowling found the need to explain that toilets are the only modern technology that wizards will accept and that before that they just shat themselves and vanished the shit. that is canon. she decided to explain that. to the world. where people will read it
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some people really suffer out in RL where they don't have their editors with them
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it could be worse, i guess, she did explain it in just one sentence on pottermore. stephenson would've had 15 pages on the history of wizard shit in the middle of book 2
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heinlein would have explained plumbing
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It's the same premise behind so much fantasy genre writing, As a lifelong socialist, I just can't read this stuff.
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As a lifelong socialist...any authors you can recommend, please? So much writing today seems to be heavily libertarian.
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Steven Brust, start with Jhereg; China Mieville, start with Iron Council; Iain M. Banks, start with The Player of Games
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>not mentioning the fall revolution by Ken Mc Leod or the mars triology by Kim Stanley Robinson comeon mate
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never read the former, got like six chapters into the latter and got distracted
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Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed
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One of the many things I love about HPMOR is the investigation of the genetics of magic-use.http://www.hpmor.com/
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wizard people, dear reader
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Do they rule anything? I just assumed they larped in their secret world because guns beat wands
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It's implied that they caused WWII.
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Meritocrats vs aristocrats.
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