BRSloth's Journal: Oz

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All geeks are just failed wizards : (

I'm beg to differ, sir! Geeks are the wizards of our world. Our arts are arcane. We write in code that actually makes things happen when read by computers. When two geeks talk to one another within earshot of non-geeks, the lay folk stare at each other and ask "Are they speaking English?" We tinker. We blow things up. We build the things whose operation to lay folk is a mystery.

Our world DOES possess magic. Science permits us to pull back the veil and see how it works, and technology is nothing more than applied magic.