The realism of magic

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In many ways magical thinking is flourishing. The belief in Silicon Valley that death can be avoided by uploading our minds into cyberspace is the purest magical thinking – a fantasy that ignores the fact that cyberspace relies on a material infrastructure, which can easily be destroyed in wars, revolutions and natural disasters. For those who reject religion, techno-magic offers a pseudo-remedy for the human condition. The true meaning of magic is that the human mind cannot bear very much reality.

[https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2020/08/realism-magic].

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