fantasy settings with high powered magic are secretly all captive societies being kept at a low tech level by inimical aliens. if people can become artillery by learning to wave their hands, nobody has to learn ballistics, which keeps mathematics from ever getting off the ground
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what if Pythagorean mysticism still had a seat at the Big Table?
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considering that the entire Roman Empire was constructed by people who had no concept of "zero" as a number, this doesn't seem as far-fetched as you might imagine
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