Objective Magic

Nigerian car thief turns into a goat – CS Monitor

Objective truth is the ideal of journalism. It’s a destination reached through rigorous reporting rooted in skepticism. That’s a tall order in a society that’s so heavily riddled with superstition. In Nigeria, the sharp line between fact and fiction is badly blurred by centuries of animism and occultism that infects contemporary Muslim and Christian thinking as well as secular thought.

I find it odd that believing in magic is more problematic than believing that democracy ultimately leads to equal gains for all, or believing that Israel was promised to Jewish people by God, or any number of other political/historic myths nations and societies tell themselves. Normally I’d spend more time on this but.. jeez. What a pompous ass.