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Big fan of mental techniques for body control. I think the next stage of placebo tech is chaos magic.
[searches: “chaos magic”] >>> {mind blown}
Do this all the time and thought it was just me being s m r t: “Guided by the pragmatic ethos of "if it works, use it; if it doesn't, drop it," chaos magicians borrow freely from any available system, including science, pop culture, psychology, and various world religions.”
Oh boy, get ready to have your mind blown again! You're about to read a political manifesto that integrates chaos magic's underlying principles into global politics! https://soulism.net/
That was quite a read to get down to “Belief in magic that you can control for yourself will make you better able to command your own perceptions. It is a placebo, nothing more and nothing less.”. Phew.
But interesting and relatable. More codified, if that’s even an acceptable way to describe the overview, than the perspective I have been evolving for myself. But some convergence there.
This conversation diverges significantly from the thrust of the original discussion. While an enjoyable divergence for me, apologies to those who came for a focused discussion of wart removal methodology. 😉
It's a bit more than that. I genuinely believe that realism is the fundamental underlying ideology of the world's many bigotries. The workers need to take magic back from the rich.