three types of magic

There are three types of magic.

  1. Magic that Gandalf does when his staff glows.
  2. Magic that I do when I amaze and inspire you with my awesome blog posts.
  3. Magic that rocket scientists do. I HATE STEM.

So let's talk about the first and the second. Not the third because I HATE STEM

(and because it's probably just a really convoluted version of the second one).

part one: The first type of magic: Magic

Gandalf is a fictional character despite how many Gandalf/reader fics you degenerate scum are reading. Sure fictional characters are real, but that's because concepts are real. A a concept Gandalf is real, but Istari wizards are not flesh and bones touching and having sex with you. Get a grip kiddo, Magic is not real.

But like in that last paragraph I was being really mean and cruel to you. Infact I was deliberately imitating the style of youtuber CJ the X who is copying/satirizing the old dad mean man archetype who tells you what to do. I was being really mean to you, my reader, right there.

I should be nicer. Magic with a big M could be real. Like I mean I have no idea if it is real, or not.

Living French philosopher (not many of those) Quentin Meillassoux thinks that literally anything is possible to happen at any moment. His entire philosophy is based on it. For him everything exists in hyper chaos, apparently. I have not actually read his book. So Magic could just pop into existence, even though currently we cannot see any Magic. He might be wrong though.

part two: The second type of magic: magic

magic is real. When I am watching a video by CJ the X I paying full attention whether I like it or not. I tried doing homework while watching CJ, but CJ is just too powerful and attention grabbing. They are literally controlling my mind.

magic is real, and it can be conjured through rhetoric, shiny pretty lights, and the allure of a deeper mystery. This is because art is magical, because it has something non-physical that controls behavior.

Money is very magical. People melt when they see money, and they become like Odysseus's men turned to pigs by Circe.

Goodness, like most vices, is very magical. You want to be good, don't you? You probably want sleep at night instead of dying over your sins and guilty feelings. You want Jordan Peterson to tell you that you are a good person or something like that.

A movie is like a ritual that draws you very close to it's beautiful metaphysical surface. This is because magic is an effect, or relationship. It's what draws you into something, or banishes you out with a circle of protection.

Anything can be magical though.

part three: The state of super nature

In days of yore, people ran free in the state of nature. The state of nature was when everyone was free, and killed each other. It's an idea some old British men conceived of to justify the existence of the monarchy. it's a bad tyrannical idea that misunderstands human nature.

There was/is also a state of super nature, as in supernatural power from the second magic.

In days of yore, the people and the spirits of the wilds ran free. People bent like the reeds under the feet of mighty lions. Demons ruled over our willpower like opium over 18th century nobility. These events are accurately depicted in The Legend of Korra, sequel to Avatar: the Last Airbender. In the past people lived in fear of magic's power and were squashed constantly. Eventually magic was exiled and banned, reserved for the church, and the academy only.

Should this ban be the case, or should we return to the state of super-nature? Or are we already in the state of super nature? Have we ever left? Does it still exist because bodies of propaganda rule over us? Are we in a state of super nature. Is this story even coherent?