From 634301e45433bf06fcdae500d51275677e568adb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexis Hovorka Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 22:14:06 -0600 Subject: Initial commit --- posts/20221031-ubiquitous-mundane-magic.md | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+) create mode 100644 posts/20221031-ubiquitous-mundane-magic.md (limited to 'posts/20221031-ubiquitous-mundane-magic.md') diff --git a/posts/20221031-ubiquitous-mundane-magic.md b/posts/20221031-ubiquitous-mundane-magic.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..55d341a --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/20221031-ubiquitous-mundane-magic.md @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +--- +date: 2022-10-31 +title: Ubiquitous, Mundane Magic +--- + +I've been thinking again lately about how we live in a world with ubiquitous, +mundane magic. + + + +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. -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2