Some Jerx in Your Splooge
/Just curious if there was anyone behind the HR642 thing who thought there was a chance this wasn't going to be the public's reaction to it.
You're straight up tone-deaf to the world if you thought, "If congress passes a resolution that says magic is art, then people will respect and honor magic with the gravitas it deserves." All it has done is had people talking about how useless congress is for devoting any time to magic. The narrative -- as any mammal with at least a kiwi-sized brain knew it would be -- is not about how magic should be recognized as an art. It's about how inconsequential and insignificant magic is. All you have to do is take a step back and imagine a group pushing a similar resolution through congress about something you're not into: clowning, hip-hop, scrapbooking, genital-origami. Substituting in something you're not interested in allows you to immediately see how sad it seems to the "art" and what a waste of time it seems for congress.
I'm convinced Copperfield is behind this because he thought magic was becoming too mainstream. The guy is pushing 60. He doesn't want magic to be cool. He wants to be the cool guy in an uncool field, like he was 25 years ago. So he gets behind this bill that makes it seem desperate and dorky again. It's genius really. It's the only explanation that makes sense. I refuse to believe he has his head that far up his ass, even if he is the one person who could do such a thing with relative ease.
