Is It a Prejudice?

There's an economic calculus that bati notices, which is something along the lines of, the more wasteful it is, the more meaningful it is. The pyramids function as probably ritual elements, but also as tombs, but they're not productive. Cathedrals in the middle ages were ritually important, socially important, not productive. Even even if, like, thethe communities that built them might be productive in some ways. And when i made this connection that a lot of the things which are wasteful and destructive lie at the root of magic and religion, this was something which was very difficult and shocking for her. It was like, art is also a kind of magic,