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Teaching The Next Generation

Mar 7, 2009
9
0
South Carolina
It happens, decade after decade a new generation of students become enveloped into the art of magic. Many of them will remain armatures to the art. While far fewer will acquire a taste for it, that will undoable evolve into an obsession. Our way of life as magicians.

Who decided what was right and wrong? That cretin things diminished integrity of the magician. Some might say no one has and that it’s just a matter of opinion. Many of today’s magicians are hooked as a spectator and reeled in to the world that we have so carefully weaved together, but at one time weren’t we all? The evident problem that has arisen, and is just now beginning to focus, is that once reeled in we have no teachers to guide us. Many of us are successors without Predecessors. Passionately blind just reaching out for guidance. The successors eventually discover magic exposure. Due to the nature of magic and it secrecy, the young successors first stepping stones in there learning begins with breaking the one rule they should be learning first. From the beginning the successors are doomed. Enviably this is what evolves into mass magic exposure. After and entire generation of young successors indulge there dire need to learn on magic exposure they eventually reach there limit. The barrier of knowledge that has yet to be exposed. The successor is lost and dazed yet again and now so warped with there views from exposure they begin to operate by purchasing one trick DVDs. Never fully understanding the way magic works. Never understanding the foundations and stepping stones on which magic was created. The History already lost, followed by generations of new magicians barreling down a new road that will only create more exposure. Many of these successors with no Predecessors discover a missing peace to the jigsaw. The new generation must be taught. This is where the tipping point is born. the successors, uneducated, unknowingly begin creating there own videos supported by MySpace, YouTube, meta café, and more. Exposing effects after effect, technique after technique. Thus creates a downward spiral.

Many companies such as ellusionist, theory 11, penguin magic, are born. Creating and offering some of the best evolutionary ideas to help evolve magic. The companies were never the problem. The student without teachers were. The student without understanding the value of DOING YOUR TIME to learn the secrets of the art. A new era is coming and will be created from these desperations. A project so vast and extensive that not even Jeff McBride wanted to undergo such a task. No one in the business has ever attempted to do it all the way, and the right way. Last generation was a decade of successors. The missing jigsaw is revealed with next generations Predecessors.

What is the right way? and what is the wrong? Who decided what would diminish the integrity of the magician? Some say its just a matter of opinion.

I Believe the answer rests in honor of our heroes of the past. The founding magicians that started it all.
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Mar 7, 2009
9
0
South Carolina
What is your view on the subject?

At this point I would love to here the point of view from all members of theory 11 and what they think should happen for both exposure and the next generation.
 
May 13, 2008
543
1
St Albans, UK
"It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language."

It's a heavy subject but i believe we must persist in reminding the up and comers about our own ancestors like Vernon, Marlo, Scarne and others. It is then up to them to do their research and be aware of our rich history. There will always be progress towards "new and visual" magic and this cannot be disregarded as inferior, it is just evolution. One must simply educate oneself from the beginning of this evolution rather than starting from the end, a bit like Royal Road.
 
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