Nothing crushed childhoods more than favourite experiences being tagged as fake and the first question I always asked was "who sent you?" because really, what is your problem?
I won't say I'm someone that likes to believe in the superstitious, neither will I say I am a gullible person (I guess that will be best established by people that know me very well or have lived with me) but I believe that it is not so great to take away things that are precious to people in the name of exposing the truth (unless of course this thing has been known to cause physical or emotional harm to them and others in the category).
Let's start with Christmas and the Santa Claus persona for example; why do people take pleasure in trying to prove to little children that their beloved and yearly hoped for Santa Claus does not exist? First of all, it is a definite fact that with the passing of time, the children will come to the truth that the character is only fictional and does not exist in real life as a man who lives in the Northpole, has lived for a thousand plus years, has a factory of elves making gifts for kids all year and rides in a reindeer every midnight of 25th of December, sharing gifts to all children that have been nice throughout the year. Like it is only common sense to understand that this person isn't actually real if you are a grown-up, but why do people feel the need to take it upon themselves to force the truth into the mind of precious, innocent children?
Then the one that actually pained me the most - wrestling!
I mean, we grew up loving this thing. We had our favourites from Randy Orton, Hulk Hogan, The Hardy brothers, Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, HBK, Triple H, but to mention a few. We feared guys like The Undertaker and hated some dudes like CM Punk, Mr McMann, etc. (p.s don't expect me to start mentioning those older and equally famous wrestlers - I'm not that old and these are the guys I fucked with). It is safe to say that wrestling was one of the non-spiritual methods of understanding the grey area of morality - distinguishing between good and bad people, as well as those in-between. Next thing, people just took it upon themselves to stress and emphasize on how the fights are fake, scripted and whatnot. At some point with the way they were stressing the thing, it was starting to seem like the guys did not even have muscles as they claimed to have on my tele - or worse, that they were using stunt doubles to do the fighting.
These guys didn't even lie to us, they just never said the truth out loud and for good reason. They never told us to go and bet on our favourite wrestlers to win their stipulated fights, they always called it sports entertainment (which implied that it was not like traditional sports of a similar genre like UFC and Boxing) and they always said to not try it at home. Was that not enough for these world people? Why did they make us lose interest in our favourite things? Why did they try so hard to take away our simple joys of childhood? Does anyone know?