I am convinced that at some point in time, most likely many, many millenniums ago, magic was your everyday thing, and nobody fretted about or gave it a second thought. I also believe that the same as many species have evolved from big beings into much smaller ones, so it did with the nowadays called ‘magic. To cut a long story short, as time went by, fewer and fewer people were able to display those abilities. You don’t have to be a brain surgeon or a nuclear physicist to come up with the immediate result, good old envy and fear went wild. The end result is that hiding behind high moral values, religious beliefs and political sleaze your everyday mediocre and rather dumb John and Mary Doe, were easily led by their noses into reacting to extents beyond belief against anything and everything that was not what the status quo had already come up with. And so we come to today, where the only ‘magic’ left is that of believing that once upon a time, long ago and far away there was a magical place where magic was an everyday thing.
But the most noticeable detail is that the great majority of the banned fantasy books are for children. Funny no? On one hand is OK to let them watch program after program of extremely violent, unpleasant or downright diminishing TV programs. It is also OK to let them have video games where the only purpose of the game is to kill and destroy. And whilst we are at it, lets not forget the all time favourite, lets prove them beyond any reasonable doubt that the best way to keep peace is through war. So I suppose that these could be the some of the reasons why all those books were banned, after all we don’t want anything interfering with the children’s perfect brain wash, imagine what could happen if they grow up without it? They might start believing in magic or worst still they might start recovering that long ago lost sense. Yes, I know the though is really frightening, don’t you think?
