Real Magic (Part III)

Plagues & Paradigm Shifts

“Once people envisioned the possibility of change in a fixed order, the end of an age of submission came in sight; the turn to individual conscience lay ahead. To that extent the Black Death may have been the unrecognized beginning of modern man.” 

-Barbara Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

There are some eerie parallels between the w…