
Generation Witch
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Is Magic So Fundamental to Humanity?
Magic is so fundamental to what it means to be human, why has it gotten such a bad reputation in the modern world? There's this phrase, magical thinking, which, yis usually not a compliment. So goes back partly to people like max weber, the sociologist, who said, in order to be modern, we needed to be rational. But nelson worried about this, and he talked about how society had become disenchanted. He said something along the lines of, we're becoming technicians without heart and specialists without soul. Is witchcraft practised around the world? I'm assuming that it comes in different forms depending on where you're talking about.
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