This is a repost of something I posted to boards.ie
In this current time of youtube magic, there seems to be a demand for ‘Instant Gratification’. People don’t want to learn magic, they want to be able to do it.
This is bad.
People want to skip the foundations, people want to be able to watch a video on youtube and show it to all their friends a few minutes later. This harms our art.
When you go out and preform tricks to the public when you are not ready, you give magicians in …