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i know that if i walk around with a pointy hat then lots and lots of people will immediately assume that i am associated with a certain bad-tempered group of european-descended peoples located in the southern united states, who say things like their ethnicity is superior, and who have historically been associated with things like evil actions toward people who are from outside their ethnicity (even if they say they are peaceful today, and simply advocate for the rights and supremacy of their ethnicity - while still flaunting symbols like looped rope). i was once streaming on a certain internet platform, wearing a blue pointy hat, and someone says, 'yo u r#a$c%i^s&t?' [symbols not included in the original message - i added them here in case a peevish ghoul is listening]. i assured him that i was not, and that i make no association with mean people who have appropriated the term wizard and the pointy hat.
i also watched a video on groupthink, how people in groups can really become evil towards people they deem "other." i am very worried that if i adopt the label wizard, that the muggles of the world will quickly place me in that category and be able to write me off - now i have become the 'other' to them. some people are wizards, and some people are not. 'i am not a wizard,' one might say, 'therefore i need not worry about being wise.'
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anyway this is a social/political issue, and society and politics seem to be two things that most wizards want very little to do with. of course... harry potter made wizardry mainstream, and i would want to walk around in public dressed as a wizard in order to bring a sense of levity to the world around me. but i know that this will have a heavy price. once i stand out and make myself the center of attention, the monkeys of the world will begin to creep closer and closer, with their torches and pitchforks, because as a stand-outer, now i have more attention than they do, which is a threat to the slice of mates, food, and resources that they have apportioned out for themselves, and i, being alone, am an easy target. jesus and other political martyrs experienced similar treatment on this little jungle gym we call earth.
is it as simple as dress like a muggle out in public, and dress like a wizard only when i am at home and at halloween?... i suppose the wizard of christchurch new zeland has something to say about this topic...
i also watched a video on groupthink, how people in groups can really become evil towards people they deem "other." i am very worried that if i adopt the label wizard, that the muggles of the world will quickly place me in that category and be able to write me off - now i have become the 'other' to them. some people are wizards, and some people are not. 'i am not a wizard,' one might say, 'therefore i need not worry about being wise.'
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anyway this is a social/political issue, and society and politics seem to be two things that most wizards want very little to do with. of course... harry potter made wizardry mainstream, and i would want to walk around in public dressed as a wizard in order to bring a sense of levity to the world around me. but i know that this will have a heavy price. once i stand out and make myself the center of attention, the monkeys of the world will begin to creep closer and closer, with their torches and pitchforks, because as a stand-outer, now i have more attention than they do, which is a threat to the slice of mates, food, and resources that they have apportioned out for themselves, and i, being alone, am an easy target. jesus and other political martyrs experienced similar treatment on this little jungle gym we call earth.
is it as simple as dress like a muggle out in public, and dress like a wizard only when i am at home and at halloween?... i suppose the wizard of christchurch new zeland has something to say about this topic...