some of us have been sold a bill of goods. we've been told a sales pitch that is miles off from reality. a lot of little girls grow up waiting for their knight to come and take them away on their steed of love. a lot of lonely young men are out there waiting for that one perfect girl to come along. people all over are "working" at their "important" career. children all over grow up thinking that they are going to be a famous superstar. most people out there are thinking that there is something else out there for them. that there is love just waiting to find them, that there is an important career that is really meaningful, that they're going to be a star. people really do believe in magic and it's a lot more of you than you think.

most of you think about your life in terms of magic. for instance many talk of love. but what is love except your evolutionary adaptation to pass on your genes. it is no different than the evolutionary adaptation of a pea-cock's feathers to attract his mate. or even the adaptation of a giraffe and its long neck to obtain food. evolutionary adaptations are all about helping you survive in order to breed or helping you obtain a mate to breed with. love is just your body's surge of hormones that entices you to breed. but no, you have been taught that it is a magical wondrous thing that only the heart can understand. it is clearly understandable. we all as humans go through the exact same stages of love. i know what you felt and i felt the same exact thing. what is the mystery? you are not so special as to have that only happen to you are you? also, obtaining love is no mystery. study the patterns and you will see how easy it is to obtain those loving feelings. acquiring a mate is no mystery. study those patterns and you will see that as well. our survival for the last 100,000 years as anatomically modern humans depended on our mating. if mating were that complicated we would have been extinct long ago. our modern times with our modern magical notions is the only thing that complicates mating.

and as for you and your careers... where have all your fancy careers gotten us? hunter-gatherers had an easier lifestyle so what went wrong? your waste pollutes the water you drink and the food you eat. people actually mass produce plastic toothpicks in the shape of little swords. it is by magic alone that this is needed. it is some crazy made-up fantasy world where real resources are directed towards this sort of thing. that people take their crazy magical lifestyle for real is amazing and proof that they believe in magic. is a shoe made out of less than a dollars worth of materials really more meaningful when it is sold for a hundred dollars? it is if you believe in magic. you dress up in specialized pieces of cloth that you think gives off a magical quality and even makes you feel more "important". half of you smear colored wax on your face and spray a hardener into your hair and think this adds a magical quality to your appearance. you spend your lives working to obtain more money to purchase things you think give you a magical status. you reign magically over those you think are worth less than you and they let you because they believe in the same magic.

we live on a spherical chunk of rock hurtling through space in an elliptical orbit around a gigantic ball of flaming gas. that is reality.