Magical thinking

Tom Price
3 min readJun 10, 2020

Summer edition, issue 009

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“Things have a life of their own,” the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. “It’s simply a matter of waking up their souls.”

- Melquíades, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

In this time of coronavirus, magical thinking has taken some flack.

And with good reason. When leaders like Donald Trump flippantly quip that the virus will:

“disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”

Or worse — encourage people to try out disinfectant as a potential cure — it gives imagination a bad name.

This recourse to the superstitious to coerce, mislead and sow false hope, is a cheap betrayal of reality.

As an antidote to this, the realm of science and experimentation acts as our clearest eyes…

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