Hey, les rasta queers du turfu. Un extrait approximatif du documentaire The Mindscape of Alan Moore (2003).

There is some confusion as to what magic actually is. I think that this can be cleared up if you just look at the very earliest descriptions of magic. Magic in its earliest form is often referred to as the art. I believe that this is completely literal - the way that magic is art. The art, whether that be writing, music, or any other form, is literally magic. Art is literally magic. The science of manipulating symbols, words and images to achieve changes in consciousness. The very language of magic seems to be talking as much about writing or art as it is about the supernatural. A grimoire, for example - the book of spells - was simply a fancy way of saying grammar. Indeed, to cast a spell is simply to spell, to manipulate words, to change people's consciousness. And I believe that this is why an artist or writer is the closest thing in the contemporary world that you are likely to see to a shaman.

I believe that all culture must have arisen from magic. Originally, all of the facets of that culture, whether they be art or science, were the province of the shaman. The fact that in present times this magical power has degenerated to the level of mere entertainment and manipulation is, I think, a tragedy. At the moment, the people who are using shamanism and magic to shape our culture are advertisers, rather than trying to wake people up. Their shamanism is used as an opiate to tranquilize people, and make people work in a docile manner.

Their magic box of television, and by their magic words, their jingles, can cause everybody in the country to be thinking the same words and have the same banal thoughts, or exactly the same feelings.