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Judging by the contents of this thread, the greatest trick globohomo wasn't to convince everyone that magic didn't exist, but to raise everyone with a very limited and limiting conception of it.
How many times have words, incantations so to speak, changed the trajectory of this world? If that's too grand, scale it down: I could describe in great detail a creature and conjure up an image of it in your mind. Better yet, I could just upload an image with the technology that is by large just a byproduct of language. All of what you're using to argue about the existence of magic may described as magical, arcane contraptions -- with a straight face no less.
I never will understand why people will speak with such great confidence of the trivality of anything they've merely learned to describe and call by an arbitary name. Globohomo really has taught generations upon generations to disregard and dismiss existence, to wrap it up in fancy, yet ultimately hollow words and forget about it.
From the moment of your birth to the last breath you draw, you do experience something that you will only ever be able to explain to yourself. There is a difference between using knowledge and obsessing over it to the point of holding the description and name of a thing in higher regard than the thing itself -- especially in regards to yourself. The thing of things.
