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"Along with specialization and delimitation of skills, we would tend to say that the two other practitioners of Bruno's magic, the actual magi­cian and the prophet, have now vanished. More probably, however, they have simply been camouflaged in sober and legal guises, the ana­lyst being one of them and, after all, not the most important. Nowadays the magician busies himself with public relations, propaganda, market research, sociological surveys, publicity, information, counterinforma­tion and misinformation, censorship, espionage, and even cryptogra­phy—a science which in the sixteenth century was a branch of magic."
- Eros and Magic

(dope thesis even if the book almost requires you to read it in a fever dream haze lol)

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Sapiens was one of those books i read during the road trip a few weeks ago.

funnily enough i picked up that book because two people who i respect (who are on the most opposite political ends of the spectrum imaginable lol) absolutely loathed it for very different reasons, and another person i respect recommended it to begin with.

'omg' krad thought. 'i have got to see what this shizz is about'

i kinda get the extreme reactions from everyone though?

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