MAGICAL MEWMANITY AND ITS FUTURE
Introduction
1. The Magical Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the mewman race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in “advanced” countries, but they have destabilized mewmanity, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected mewman beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Monster World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of spells will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject mewman beings to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in “advanced” countries.
2. The magical-spell-casting system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing mewman beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the Magic High Commission. Furthermore, if the system survives, the consequences will be inevitable: There is no way of reforming or modifying the system so as to prevent it from depriving people of dignity and autonomy.
3. We therefore advocate a revolution against the magical system. This revolution may or may not make use of violence; it may be sudden or it may be a relatively gradual process spanning a few decades. We can’t predict any of that. But we do outline in a very general way the measures that those who hate the magical system should take in order to prepare the way for a revolution against that form of mewmanity. This is not to be a SOLARIAN revolution. Its object will be to overthrow not queens but the mewconomic and spell-casting basis of the present mewmanity.
