so what's up with the trope where children have access to magic and then lose it as a prerequisite to growing up? where does it come from, what is it for?
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it comes up in narnia where each kid gradually loses access to narnia, which is why it's on my mind, but it's also part of his dark materials which was really formative for me. the bit where lyra loses the ability to read the alethiometer "by grace" at the end
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looks like the TVTropes page i'm looking for is "children are special"
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.
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yo arthur what the fuck
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whoa
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In the studies of kids with past life memories, the memories are usually gone by age 7.
Some cultures believed little children needed 3-7 years to fully incarnate into this world—before that they’re still kinda “on their way over” but not fully here from the spirit world yet
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Yeah, this lesson sucks imo. I think it's about how your true purpose is to get big and sad and serve capital.
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It’s for kids who are looking around at these adult things and can tell “they used to be just like me, but something’s off. They’re missing something.”
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we don't lose magic when we grow up, it is suppressed and sucked dry by the ruling system.
magic has never disappeared, it's the very thing that keeps everything running. people are just made to believe that they don't have it.
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Even worse, people actually know that not having magic is bullshit. But their ironic cynicism and distance away from magic makes it so that they actually don't have magic.
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I think it's a reflection on childhood innocence and how in youth idealism > realism
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