Idealists don’t believe in magic. They know their fictions won’t stop missiles, but they know if they convince the western populations of the ideas of how dastardly and evil those missiles are and that justice must prevail over the evil enemies then you can pull the nation into a suicidal lose-lose war that no realist or materialist would have considered
more people believe in magic than you'd think. And lots of modern notions rest squarely on magical thinking. just because they don't believe in cackling witches and wizards doesn't mean people don't believe in magic.
for example the belief that by skilful legal counsel or prosecution someone can become innocent or guilty is a magical notion. As is the belief that the printer will jam because you have an important job to do
"We need our supermen so we can feel good about our encouragement of wanton death and destruction!"
The cope in that thread is amazing:
Myths don’t shoot down Russian guided missiles
you forget these people are idealists some part of them thinks myths do shoot down missiles
Idealists don’t believe in magic. They know their fictions won’t stop missiles, but they know if they convince the western populations of the ideas of how dastardly and evil those missiles are and that justice must prevail over the evil enemies then you can pull the nation into a suicidal lose-lose war that no realist or materialist would have considered
more people believe in magic than you'd think. And lots of modern notions rest squarely on magical thinking. just because they don't believe in cackling witches and wizards doesn't mean people don't believe in magic.
for example the belief that by skilful legal counsel or prosecution someone can become innocent or guilty is a magical notion. As is the belief that the printer will jam because you have an important job to do
Bigfoot is the only reason my marriage hasn't ended
The Loch Ness Monster helped me beat the Big C
Mothman ate my ass in the dumpster behind Denny's
The Tooth Fairy helped me beat Dark Souls 3
Tooth fairy is actually real though. Fake Santa, Fake Easter Bunny, Fake Jack Skellington are all a conspiracy to hide The Occluded Tooth Fairy
comin' for to carie me home
I mean that's most capitalist countries lol. Built on myths