home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!crdgw1!rdsunx.crd.ge.com!rdsunx!barnett
- From: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett)
- Newsgroups: alt.magic
- Subject: Re: Penn & Teller & Exposure.
- Message-ID: <BARNETT.92Nov16132331@grymoire.crd.ge.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 18:23:31 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.170215.4072@memstvx1.memst.edu>
- <1e8co4INN2ki@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>
- Sender: usenet@crd.ge.com (Required for NNTP)
- Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.ge.com
- Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY
- Lines: 29
- In-Reply-To: gumby@matt.ksu.ksu.edu's message of 16 Nov 1992 08:55:00 -0600
- Nntp-Posting-Host: grymoire.crd.ge.com
-
- In article <1e8co4INN2ki@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> gumby@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (David Brian Gumminger) writes:
-
- >The second is the
- >"visible illusion" on their current program. This is a variation on the
- >Mis-made lady idea except they use see-thru boxes.
-
- I agree with David. What does the "visible ilusion" expose? A trap
- door. Hardly high-tech. Everyone knows about trap doors, and magicians
- now-a-days know people know about them. Therefore many illusions are
- designed to "prove" that trap doors aren't used - even when they are!
-
- While it appears to be exposing, it isn't. They have exposed other
- items, like the truck running over Teller - which again doesn't expose
- useful technology.
-
- This is the whole point. Exposure itself doesn't hurt. However,
- exposure of useful technology does hurt. It hurts the magicians who
- have to perform it, and the audience who watches it.
-
- There is one more point. Some magicians feel that posting to this
- newsgroup is exposure. Now suppose magician "A" tells magician "B" a
- secret. And suppose magician "B" posts it on alt.magic. Magician "A"
- might decide that magician "B" can no longer be trusted. Therefore
- magician "A" may never reveal anything important to magician "B" again.
-
- Magicians share with an implicit trust. Break that trust and you may no
- longer be welcome.
- --
- Bruce Barnett <barnett@crd.ge.com> uunet!crdgw1!barnett
-