This "magic" requires a certain dose of privilege to be enjoyed. Fairly certain nearly everyone has the cognitive potential to do so, but unless we tax the rich, not the potential privilege.

✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.

That book has been on my list for too long!

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy

Irish archeologists walking through the countryside with nothing to talk about because farmers keep tearing down their own country's historical sites (reading Irish archeology books is depressing)

... But if you're bored, then you're boring.

The agony and the irony, they're killing me!

Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta

Just ordered this book, thank you for introducing it to me!

That book sounds wonderful. My local library has it through Libby

Where I am, everywhere is inaccessible private land, except for a tiny sliver of roads between them.
There are a few places which allow you to temporarily exist there for the purpose of commercial exchanges.
But most of my world is simply forbidden to access. There are endless forests and fields here, all littered with "no tresspass" signs.
It is all owned and I can't go there.

This planet is 0% magical

For me it is magical when I see some people who know how to walk and chewing gum at the same time

That book sounds pretty neat

Walk? In this suburban hell?