System Failure

System Failure

The Magical Underground

Magic as the Perennial Foil to Power

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Nathan Knopp
May 05, 2025
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This essay concludes the “Christianity and the Fall of Rome” section of the System Failure constellation of ideas. The central notion is that Christianity started as a magical rebellion against imperial authority, only to calcify into a similar authority during the Middle Ages. That Medieval authority then faced its own magical rebellion in the guise of…

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