Magic as a social tool.

OliveroG · 02-23-2012, 02:14 AM

We all are aware to the fact that magic is often used as a tool to help the social life of the magician, since magic by itself requires us to perform to many people (to practice or because we're getting paid, or for any reason) it's possible to think about magic as first as a tool rather than an art, that's what happens with most of the magicians when they're starting, but, is this really good or bad?

I'm going to share this example Max Maven gave me: Imagine you are in a room where there is a big silk hanging on the wall, this silk has a drawing on it, and lets say this is the masterpiece of some famous paintor and it costs millions of dollars. Now, imagine that something started a fire, a person got close and now that person is on fire, in life danger. You see that and run to the silk, take it, and use it to extinct that fire, is this good or bad? of course is good, you saved that person's life which is more valuable than the silk, but two things happened to that silk, it was used for something OTHER than its purpose (saying that its purpose is to be shown and to comunicate beauty of art and stuff) and we can also say that the silk (of course) didn't ended as well as it started.

The example above can also aply to the magic used as a tool, because the same thing happens in a lower scale, magic can actually save a person's social life (psicologically helping that person and probably stoping him from becoming a serial killer xD), but two things happened to magic in that case, it wasn't used for its original purpose (comunicate as an art) and it didn't ended as well as it started (this is because when magic is used as a social tool, generally is overused, and sometimes the secret can be revealed just to get more attention, as in youtube revealers).

So guys, many of us, including me, started in magic to get more friends and to meet more people, the difference is that the lower part of us (it's always the lower part) realized that magic is more than a tool, and starting developing it as an art. What do you think about this?

02-23-2012, 02:14 AM	#1
OliveroG Marcos Olivero Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Venezuela Posts: 103	Magic as a social tool. We all are aware to the fact that magic is often used as a tool to help the social life of the magician, since magic by itself requires us to perform to many people (to practice or because we're getting paid, or for any reason) it's possible to think about magic as first as a tool rather than an art, that's what happens with most of the magicians when they're starting, but, is this really good or bad? I'm going to share this example Max Maven gave me: Imagine you are in a room where there is a big silk hanging on the wall, this silk has a drawing on it, and lets say this is the masterpiece of some famous paintor and it costs millions of dollars. Now, imagine that something started a fire, a person got close and now that person is on fire, in life danger. You see that and run to the silk, take it, and use it to extinct that fire, is this good or bad? of course is good, you saved that person's life which is more valuable than the silk, but two things happened to that silk, it was used for something OTHER than its purpose (saying that its purpose is to be shown and to comunicate beauty of art and stuff) and we can also say that the silk (of course) didn't ended as well as it started. The example above can also aply to the magic used as a tool, because the same thing happens in a lower scale, magic can actually save a person's social life (psicologically helping that person and probably stoping him from becoming a serial killer xD), but two things happened to magic in that case, it wasn't used for its original purpose (comunicate as an art) and it didn't ended as well as it started (this is because when magic is used as a social tool, generally is overused, and sometimes the secret can be revealed just to get more attention, as in youtube revealers). So guys, many of us, including me, started in magic to get more friends and to meet more people, the difference is that the lower part of us (it's always the lower part) realized that magic is more than a tool, and starting developing it as an art. What do you think about this?