I FACEPALM when i read what i wrote about 'what it takes to be a seer'. UGH, self, get anymore up there why don't i. but i mean ANYWAY, presentation aside, maybe this is why nobody believes in magic anymore. and by magic i mean fortune-telling, soothsaying, the sixth sense, all that stuff. because it relies on recognizing patterns, on Knowing Your World, and the world was smaller ages ago, easier to know. when i say smaller i mean people usually didn't travel much, didn't meet all sorts of people and encounter all sorts of new ideas. so if a 'sixth sense' tells you that something is Off in your insular little world that you Know, something probably IS Off, because you know your little world's cycles and patterns, because it's been the same cycles and patterns there for generations.

but now we can't blame magic. we are connected to all sorts of information, and the patterns aren't as set because things are always CHANGING, dynamic. airplanes and internet and trains and cars and cellphones. but then i guess, what is all this technology and information except tools that hone our sensibilities, too? that tell us who we are and what is happening only because we MAKE them tell us? we shape them to tell us, the way we used to tell magic to tell us what to do.

ps: last night i read this awesome concept about the role of maps and borders in history and nation-building that i think you'd appreciate, as a fellow someone-who-thinks-about-narnia-all-the-time. i'll find it and tell you.