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+date: 2022-10-31
+title: Ubiquitous, Mundane Magic
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+I've been thinking again lately about how we live in a world with ubiquitous,
+mundane magic.
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+We harness lightning in intricate tiny structures made of sand and metal to
+make them think, keeping their own internal time using perfectly beating hearts
+made of crystals, sustaining themselves with energy sacs made of solid metallic
+acid, communicating to other thinking structures using meshes of invisible
+light all around us.
+
+We learn how to harness and direct the thoughts of these structures in
+school-how to make them think more quickly, or more creatively, or more
+aesthetically and approachably for those not familiar with the arcane,
+inscrutable languages used to form those thought-directing spells.
+
+We carry opaque slabs of inorganic materials in our pockets, capable of near
+instantaneous communication across the entire world, able to tell us our
+precise positions on the planet with the aid of artificial stars we've placed
+up in the sky with precisely manufactured atomic hearts that we've calibrated
+to accommodate for the measurable difference in the speed of time between what
+we experience on the ground and what they experience from their places in the
+sky, not to mention any of the other hundreds, thousands, millions of things
+the slabs can do.