Die Antwoord (no, not that one)
2022 02 01
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I don't enjoy magic. I don't think I even enjoyed it during the childhood years when you're supposed to enjoy it. I don't know if it's just that I know it's not real and so am not entertained by the pretence, or if it's something else.
Penn Jillette spoke once about making how the trick is done part of the performance, so that nothing was ever fobbed off as a trick requiring the watcher to think you were supernatural. I wish I could recall what show I'd seen that in. At any rate, I found that interesting, to reveal the magic.
It puts me in mind of people who claim how knowing how the universe works (having science reveal the answers) takes away the mystery, the joy, the wonder. That is one sentiment I absolutely and categorically disagree with. To me, the exploration to finding the answers, and those resultant answers themselves, is very much the magic. When you have the laundry list of how something comes to be and you can think how incredible it is that that's how something works, it gives a certain sense of wonder, satisfaction, completion, accomplishment.
You're missing a lot of joy when you don't search for the answers.