Idea Seed: A different way of posting and discussion

To:  Claudius, Degringolade

RE:  Magic and other such fripparies

I haven't really discussed this much during our recent conversations, but I have been outlining a book about magic coming back to this world after a long banishment.  I realize that you tend not to want to read JMG anymore, so this may not be all that welcome a reading pleasure, but since I am turning this little piece of screed into a post, I thought that I would use the e-mail format to attempt the "kill two birds with one stone" trick to get your opinions along with getting the screed up in the drafts woodpile up on blogger.

https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/39410.html

Now, there have been a couple of posts over there at Degringolade I have been working on, just an open kinda woolgathering effort of ideas and half-baked themes to work on and maybe lash together into something that I could submit to a publisher for immediate dismissal. 

https://mightaswellliebackandenjoyit.blogspot.com/2018/11/idea-seeds.html

https://mightaswellliebackandenjoyit.blogspot.com/2018/11/idea-seed-2-underlying-causes.html

https://mightaswellliebackandenjoyit.blogspot.com/2018/11/idea-seed-3-magic-as-ability-to-access.html

So, today's efforts and reading are a discussion of the current "magic" community and the motivations and politics therein.  What I am thinking of exploring is the all-too-human capacity of people everywhere and of every ilk to manage to miss the point completely.  JMG's article over at Dreamwidth seems to support this idea.  But if magic did come back, what would the current people trying to utilize the "technology" think of the process of it's return?

Most people who dabble in magic and magical thinking in today's world are pretty damn "fringey" people.  Doesn't mean that they are wrong, it just means that their thoughts and pre-existing mental states are conditioned by a society unused to, and perhaps hostile to the magic that they will encounter upon it's return. 

So, long and short of it, this is a test, this is only a test, there is no required reading, there is no required response.  If you do wish to chime in....well, I am not at all certain how that will work right now/