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Fantasy » alt.fan.tolkien » harry potter vs all
| harry potter vs all [message #82713] |
Sa, 16 Juli 2005 07:52 |
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some christian groups are not pleased with the success of harry potter.
even the pope recently said bad stuff about the potter phenomenon.
personally, i'm an atheist and so don't care much about what christians
think. and, i don't think there's anything wrong with a little paganism
and spooky magical stuff.
but, in a way, i understand the pope's concern.
kids are approaching harry potter like a religion. and very from a
very young age. this is kinda disturbing. and, unlike santa claus, it's
not something that comes once a year, but is an obsession among many
kids all year round. also, harry potter titillates kids with fantasies
of possessing god-like powers. pottheads are like tetsuo in 'akira'.
now, star trek too had a devoted following. but the trekkie cult was
just that. a cult, with limited appeal to supergeeks. also, trekkies
were mostly young adults and adults, not kids and chillun.
star wars also had a devoted following and a big one too. but, in
nearly 20 years, there have been only 6 star wars movies. also, its
appeal was mainly to older kids and young adults. despite its jedi
lore and notwithstanding the fact that some star wars fans are scary,
it's treated by most of its fans as simply a good series of movies.
also, star wars is mainly a story with a beginning, middle, and ending.
harry potterism seems to have no end. it's more like an ongoing
religion. as for LOR by tolkien, the size of the book is too daunting
to create a vast following. also, LOR's appeal is to young adults so by
the time readers crack into LOR, they are likely have a faculties
advanced enough to approach the material with some degree of critical
acumen.
but, harry potter books are devoured by kids like mother's milk, like
gerber baby food.
kids seem to get hooked onto harry potterfrom a very early age. indeed,
they grow up in the bubble of harry potterism. also, its wide wide
appeal has made it into something like a worldwide pagan church. also,
potterism doesn't simply provide its readers with fantasy and escape
but an alternative phisophy, religion, and value system. pottheads are
like scientologists. they are true believers, like moonies.
so, the combination of hooking kids from an early age, its vast appeal,
and its 'spiritualism' makes potterism kinda unsettling.
i'll bet if rowling wrote the next book and told kids to mix their pee
with banana peels and drink it for magical powers, many pottheads
would. yes, potterism is this far gone. now, rowling isn't that kind
of sicko; she's just a greedy hack. but, the cultural mindset of
potterism has already reached this point of obsessive and blind
obedience to and dependence on rowling.
indeed, alot of kids find in potter more than entertainment or
literature. some seem to get totally lost in potterland. some see
potter as a kind of imaginary friend, a kind of jesus figure, a pied
piper. some see potter as alter ego, a kind of uberdork with
superpowers, a kind of geek nietzscheanism.
but, christians aren't the only ones upset with the potter phenom.
secularists are wary of something so quasi-religious, dogmatic, and
devotional in its social manifestation. kids seem to get hooked onto
this; we wonder how this crass authoress is able to fool so many
kids--and parents--with her stupid fantasies. how could people be this
stupid? how can kids be so lacking in imagination as to read on the
same insipid cliched stories being read by countless other kids around
the world? it's like a fundamentalist islamic classroom with every
child chanting and bobbing their heads to the same domgatic reading,
soaking it all by rote, believing in every word as that of god.
indeed, where is the rebellious impulse among pottheads? do they
really think it's cool to love exactly what all the other kids are in
love with? is harry potter the big mac of kids' literature? is it
producing millions of stupid fatheads like bigmac produced millions of
stupid fatbutts?
and, paganites are probably pissed at potter too. they tried so hard
over the years to make paganism into something cool, mysterious, dark,
and demonically seductive... and guess what? this geek kid with a funny
wand comes along and usurps paganism and turns into dork science. what
used to be rituals, practices, and knowledge of isolated and secretive
societies and individuals--or the pretense of such--are now something
that sells kiddie books and hot cocoa mugs around the world. besides,
what is the setting for harry potter stories? a boarding school.
imagine that, paganism appropriated by some stuffy, elitist prep school
and taught to cleancut kids. dark secret knowledge and rituals reduced
to a readymade and accessible curriculum for every pimple faced
frog-faced runt.
we should also be pissed at the potter phenom because it promotes
cultural conformity throughout the globe. worse, the books are no good
and follow the same formula book after book. it's upsetting to know
that so many children are so enthralled with something so generic and
cliched. instead of provoking every child to seek his or her own field
of imagination, harry potter books herd children across the globe under
one tent, serving everyone the same old warmed over fairytale
conventions. what rowling has perfected isn't storytelling or
characterization but the art of repackaging tired material to appear
fresh to alot of kids who've been introduced to culture via tv,
videogames, and computers; and the art of catering to busy overworked
ignorant parents are simply grateful that someone has produced books
their kids will read.
some say harry potter books should be lauded for pulling kids away from
tv and computers, but does anyone really think harry potter phenom
would exist without the precedent of generalization of taste via the
tv, computers, and videogames?
besides, harry potter books have spawned movies and obnoxious
franchising.
as it stands, rowling need not come up with a single new idea, not that
she ever has. she has the formula down pat, and she knows kids today
have been conditioned and brainwashed by the mass media in such way
that they can be fed the same garbage year after year and left feeling
comfortably dumb. hollywood has the same formula every summer, and so
does rowling.
so harry potter sucks for many reasons. it has given spiritual
credence to what is really just alot of stupid witchcraft hocus pocus.
it has taken something dark and cool and turned into childish,
harmless, and innocuous.
it has reduced the potential for imagination and poetry in every child
and droned it into fairytale muzak. and, not just among little kids but
older kids and even young adults who ought to have outgrown this stuff.
we wonder if some of these people will read harry potter books all
their lives and then hand them down to their kids.
anyway, i kinda disagree with concerned christians because the main
problem of harry potter isn't that it celebrates sorcery. its main
crime is it has made sorcery into nothing more special than kids coming
together and learning how to bake cookies.
i have a feeling the devil is pissed more by potter books than god in
heaven. if a bunch of snotnosed kids at a boarding school can do such
stuff, what does it say about sorcery? ? do you want a biker gang run
by mr. rogers?
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