What Goes Up...

Imagine a future world that pushes magic into the fringes of respectability. Using logic and reason, avoiding superstition is the only way humanity can make progress - morally and ethically. Imagine a future world that pushes science into the fringes of respectability. The ability to sense, to intereact with unseen forces has become the only way humanity can make progress - morally and ethically. There is a balance between those forces, but at best it is unstable and unsteady.
Attitudes change. A compelling short story of a fantastic future world dancing in the light of the polarization of those two forces. It's a world Harlan Ellison or Rod Serling might find normal, even comfortable in how out of joint it is.