What About The Mask Magician by Zlwin Chew

What about the masked guy who exposes magic on international television?

I bet many of you have heard and even seen the television series where a masked magician reveals magic secrets. You might love him, you might even thank him. But you do not know how much damage he has caused to the beautiful and highly respected art of magic and illusion.

Magicians do not have any respect at all for these people who does such criminal acts. They who expose magic and illusions on television do not know the seriousness of their actions. They think that it is really cool to tell the world how magic is done. It is not. They are destroying a beautiful art. When they expose an illusion, they do not know how much its inventor have spent time in inventing it. Magicians and illusionists pour their life into creating magical effects to entertain the world. Many of them spent their whole life researching, studying and creating only one effect and that effect will most certainly turn out to be a really good one. Then comes a smart ass who steals the secret and expose to the whole world how the magic is done. And in one or two minute, the life work, toil and sweat of the inventor are destroyed. Gone are his 50 years of inventing that one illusion. It only takes a few minutes to bring down the highest building which takes 20 years to build. Does the person who exposes the magic feel the pain? No, he only feels the gain. Little does he know that he has destroyed the inventor’s life.

So here is an urge for you not to enjoy such exposures. Put yourself in a place where you have a good 20 years writing a really good book and someone takes it and sells to the world and gets all the credit. If you like magic, do not destroy it. Do not tell your friends how it is done. By exposing the secret, you have thus destroyed every magical moment that your friend could have gotten when he sees magic. By exposing magic, the annihilation of wonderment follows suit.

If you know how something is done, good for you. Keep it with you and resist the temptation to destroy other people’s magical moments. Remember that no one will think that you are smart if you know how a trick is done, you will not gain anything.

Here is something you may not know. Magicians sometimes wish that they do not know how something is done. This is because they will never be able to feel the amazement that magic can give. That is why many magicians, after seeing an effect that they do not know, there would be a powerful feeling within them that yells, “Wow! That is a good one! How’d you that?!” and they will pray not to know how it is done. It is a privilege to be someone who does not know magic.

-Zlwin Chew( Awesome Malaysian Magician )