It offers a heady sense of power and control, even though you intuitively know there's always a catch. If you want to be powerful like a genie, you have to learn to live in a lamp and do the bidding of whatever random a-hole figures out they have to rub it.
The unknown is glamorous, and indeed an old word for magical spells was glamour. The disenchantment that results from actually learning how the spells work is the revelation that nothing truly offers infinite power, not even magic.
Wisdom is the discovery that a world without magic, as much disillusionment as that might save people, is also a world without wonder.
Children would stop getting impressed by dinosaurs once we start cloning them and putting them everywhere. Any wonder that's ubiquitous is by definition no longer wondrous
The unknown is glamorous, and indeed an old word for magical spells was glamour. The disenchantment that results from actually learning how the spells work is the revelation that nothing truly offers infinite power, not even magic.
Wisdom is the discovery that a world without magic, as much disillusionment as that might save people, is also a world without wonder.
Children would stop getting impressed by dinosaurs once we start cloning them and putting them everywhere. Any wonder that's ubiquitous is by definition no longer wondrous