“So here we are. All iconoclasts and innovators, so long as we are consumers first. Not such an empowering incantation after all. As Carl Sagan wrote in The Demon-Haunted World (1995), magic requires the tacit cooperation of the audience with the magician – an abandonment of scepticism or the willing suspension of disbelief…”

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