meditation teachers be like “i wish to spread the dharma for the benefit of all beings” yet none have ever attempted to make a movie, TV show, or even the most powerful known vessel of culture, a YA fantasy novel. curious 🤔
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yud at least had the sense to write harry potter fanfic. that shit worked. kids read it and everything
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c.s. lewis obviously had the right idea with the narnia series. that’s how you get em young. surprising how few people have really seriouslu tried to follow in his footsteps
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meanwhile the power vacuum in teaching the dharma to children of my generation was filled by… j.k. rowling. and we know how that turned out
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millennials criticizing the harry potter universe for liking cops too much or w/e is its own whole genre by now but it really is very frustrating that harry potter looms so large in the millennial psyche despite being ultimately so morally and spiritually shallow
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rowling was just some woman before she accidentally became a kind of mother to an entire generation. it was a burden she did not sign up for, was not vetted for, and ultimately was unprepared to bear
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at least the popularity of the harry potter series taught us that many, many kids wished school was more meaningful, more filled with adventure, more suffused with magic; wished that they were being taught how to actually do cool stuff by teachers they could respect
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there’s just so little to learn from harry’s arc tho. he starts out surviving voldemort because of his mother’s love (did the other mothers who lost children to voldemort love their children any less?) and ends up beating voldemort on a technicality involving the elder wand
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what is there to admire or emulate here? i’ve never heard a single person say out loud that they want to be like harry potter. there’s nothing to be like. harry wins because he’s Special, not because of any exceptional qualities he’s managed to cultivate
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You’re being too literal-minded. Those are powerful media but not content-appropriate. Historically it’s been stuff like archery, martial arts, painting, ikebana, yoga… adjacent somatic practices. Modern equivalent = puzzles and puzzle video games. Many even have zen mode.
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You can't teach immediacy via media!
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