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>And how much of it was to cause levity This seems highly likely to me. Having interacted with a fair few people like this, it's easy to underestimate how much
by JonnieCache 10y ago
>And how much of it was to cause levity
This seems highly likely to me. Having interacted with a fair few people like this, it's easy to underestimate how much they see such occult practices in terms of irony and poetic language. They are most assuredly not making a naive attempt at doing what physicists do, which is the tempting assumption. (Sometimes it's correct of course.)
The emphasis in "magic words" is usually more on the words than the magic.
- jchrisa 10y agoI find this talk very inspiring re: the power of poetry. http://longnow.org/seminars/02005/jan/14/religious-war-in-light-of-the-infinite-game/ http://longnow.org/seminars/02005/jan/14/religious-war-in-li...
- Bartweiss 10y agoThere's definitely a sense of humor to efforts like this - a realization that the whole thing is so absurd that it's worth going all the way to impossibility. When you're setting out to oppose bureaucracy and militarism, poetry and magical techniques make a satisfying thematic counter; you can adopt them for that purpose without any real belief that they work.