It seems amazing to me that some people can't decipher between a show that exposes magic secrets to a lay audience and a book written by a magician that teaches magic to future magicians.
It doesn't matter why it was created. Once it is created, it is available to everyone who knows of its existence. You can go on and on about your idealism, but it doesn't matter, because the rest of the world could care less.
What is the purpose of the magician's code anyway?
The magician's oath as we know it was originally written in a time where magicians were at their worst in terms of hoarding secrets and backstabbing. It was written in a time where Harry Kellar became America's greatest magician by stealing the work of his contemporaries.
I don't want to go back to that time.
I'm going to see how one of you feel when you come up with something valuable and clever and then have some sell-out expose it to the public.
First, I would take it as a compliment that someone wants to take something as worthless as a secret and show it off to everyone else.
Second, it's free publicity.
Third, it helps to prevent me from becoming complacent.
If you had your way, we'd never be able to rotate new blood into the scene. When I was in middle school, I watched the Masked Magician specials. It began my interest in magic. Are you going to tell me that I'm not a serious magician because I watched an exposure show out of curiosity? Answer that question with a direct yes or no. If you can't, then shut... up.
It still scares me that so many people are defending this masked "magician."
You're scared by people not hating a guy who exposed magic tricks. Man, you're going to have a stroke when you find out about really big things like the Holocaust.
Plus I would like to add that there is a difference between "exposure" and magic tutorials. They are two different concepts.
On paper, yeah. But in the real world, the line kind of blurs.
David Blaine wrote his book Mysterious Stranger both for magicians and the lay audience and teaches how serveral tricks are done. People who don't actually want to be magicians will still know how those tricks are done, and you'll probably burst another vein over that. Same with Criss Angel's book.
"Anyway, I don't care what's being exposed on YouTube. I know for a fact I'm better than that."
Steerpike I agree on somethings, but not everything,for example: how would it make you feel, if you buy a trick learn it practice, perform it, and then someone says, "you did .......... I saw the tutorial on Youtube, I mean Hecklers do that, and they will ruin a show" or they might say, " I saw the exposure on The Masked Magician" wouldn't that make you angry, it would for me.
No, it wouldn't. Because a mature adult accepts the world the way it is, and then seeks change. He takes responsibility for himself. If he encounters a problem that cannot be solved directly, he solves it indirectly.
I don't get mad, because that doesn't do me any good. I take a proactive approach. That means I have to work harder, yes. But I'm okay with that. Some people would complain that they shouldn't have to work harder like that, and I say those people are still little boys and girls who shouldn't even be magicians because they're lazy.