It is, and yet in another sense it isn't. I think of them more as points on a continuum. To an unsophisticated person, technology might look like magic. To an atheist, religion might look like (belief in) magic. That's what makes the interconnections between these three things so fascinating to me.
...what happens once everyone is magic...It's not about your abilities but where you're born, who you're born to, how lucky you are etc. that determines your level of access to magic.
Interesting, yes. So in that case magic would be egalitarian in the sense that everyone has it, but elitist in the sense that not everyone will be able to exploit it to the full. So it's not like science -- which is truly egalitarian, e.g. a car or a laptop works exactly the same for everyone no matter what -- and it's not like magic as a rare inborn skill, but a sort of middle ground. Hmm...
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It is, and yet in another sense it isn't. I think of them more as points on a continuum. To an unsophisticated person, technology might look like magic. To an atheist, religion might look like (belief in) magic. That's what makes the interconnections between these three things so fascinating to me.
...what happens once everyone is magic...It's not about your abilities but where you're born, who you're born to, how lucky you are etc. that determines your level of access to magic.
Interesting, yes. So in that case magic would be egalitarian in the sense that everyone has it, but elitist in the sense that not everyone will be able to exploit it to the full. So it's not like science -- which is truly egalitarian, e.g. a car or a laptop works exactly the same for everyone no matter what -- and it's not like magic as a rare inborn skill, but a sort of middle ground. Hmm...