>>682 This alliance exists. Those in it often feel it doesn't exist, but those outside it have a strange animosity for us.
It is a forever uneasy Dao with shifting bounds and many spazzes (oh, all of our most prominent representatives are, that is how they appoint themselves such) who keep entering and leaving it in disgrace, but the Huizingan Magic Circle itself is antifragile like the ouroboros. The enemies of the Circle try to rewrite the Pattern, but the Circle is an intrinsic part of Creation; it does nothing and wins.
It is like how the TTS Gamer Presidents seemingly can't stand each other, but are in fact the Three Vinegar Tasters trapped (heh) in a karma, having once experienced rays of the bliss of trve gaming and knowing its rather arcane subtleties. To the outsider, they must seem more like the blind men arguing about an elephant. But to the insider, they are like Talmudic sages coming up with arguments from fanciful, completely unwarranted directions that yet sometimes, somehow reveal something amusing about reality.
(Oh, what are my beliefs? "Why yes, I read and subscribe to the theology of the literal Puritans; how could you tell?" In other words, explaining myself on this gets overly wordy and more unpopular the longer I explain. I'll leave it at, my tolerance for art extends very, very far if it's in service of the holy--we have an erotic sacred text, mind you--but not so much when it's an earnest invitation to idolatry, heresy, sin, etc.)