Sunday, November 27, 2016

Magical thinking

What is the idea of magic? It seems to me that it's "whatever is impossible." If something is going downwards and upwards, it is magical. Any time someone finds himself believing in magical thinking, it is simply contradictory a priori. By definition, it contradicts. In saying "I can fly" you say "it's impossible to fly yet I do it." if you had an airplane, you would not call it magical. People fall into magical thinking in many ways, some subtle some overt. It's basically always, "I contradict what is." If you contradict what is, then you are not grounded in anything at all. There is nothing but misery. 

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