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The border guard between US and Mexico has tripled since Nafta... the way what they call globalization actually works, it's all about trapping people in places where you then remove social security, creating people desperate enough to undersell each other, and allow corporations to move around to take advantage of that.
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Peasants brought up on a tradition of superstitious magic could hardly be expected to distinguish between such ostensibly Christian rituals and the mumbled incantations of the local wizard. And so, to the discomfort of the priests, many came to regard elements of Christian devotion as simple magical spells. The Latin Mass was, after all, incomprehensible to the common people, so it already had the aspect of an occult formula. It came to be seen, like magic, as an essentially mechanical rite thro
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― The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science
― The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science
