Why the kids shouldn't watch Harry Potter And The Sourcerer's Stone?
The Sick Story
The whole story is a direct reflection of what happens in our deeply sick society. Saturated with dangerously pseudoscientific and outdated ideas and values. Evidently, the author who wrote the original book had no clue about what amounts to sustainable child education, not to mention any knowledge about how biological, psychological and social aspects influence child development.
The whole movie is filled with all kinds of scientifically aberrant and psychologically corrupted ideas. Its story reflects and perpetuates all types of social bullshit permeating our society every day, and is nothing more than dangerous disinformation brainwashing kids about the way they should their lives.
Magically stable child
The film begins with the story of little British boy named Harry growing up around psychologically abusive family. He was being locked up in the small closet under the stairs where he spent most of his life, while being constantly emotionally and physically abused. Despite this he seems to be completely void of any psychological traumas and does not show any sign of emotional or cognitive disorder or underdevelopment caused by his family's abusive treatment. He grew up to be completely psychologically stable kid. Of course it is impossible in real life, but, well, it's a story about magic not reality or science.
(Gabor Mate - The Consequences of Stressed Parenting)
Consumerist spell
Later, Harry ends up in Diagon Valley which is nothing else but Wizard supermarket full of magical consumerist crap. Harry doesn't have money to buy the necessary products so he is forced to go to some bank to get some "monetary magic" (great lesson about capitalism kids!). Obviously, even the realm of wizards was built upon primitive and obsolete ideas of monetary system revolving around it's banking social parasitisim.
There is also an intense social stratification. Harry as being a rich one (inherited a fortune from his real parents) is able to afford buying sweets and sharing them with his poor friend Ron Weasley. I suppose wizards are not very smart kind, if they were unable to figure out how to create their social realm without monetary social manipualtion, inequality, class division and poverty.
College genre
At some point Harry arrives at Hogwarts, which is an important school of wizardry. Right at the main door, he is "welcomed" by awfully cold, unsympathetic and abrupt teacher. That old miserable hag role is to indoctrinate kids with awful school rules. She infuses fear in them with all kinds of warnings and tells them that they will be harshly judged all the time for their performance. Basically, she threatens the little students into being mindlessly obedient or they would face punishment. She explains that they must compete with others to acquire the necessary points. Also school principal terrorizes those children with death warning if they let themselves go to restricted areas.
The whole Hogwarts looks like a typical brainwashing and an abusive boarding school. Just like many schools that have existed in our capitalistic system. Even the food given to kids there look look like model consumerist, cardiac arrest junk food, supersaturated with insanely indulging amounts of greasy meat or sugar.
The school is divided into four different houses - idea that is, obviously, invented to indictrinate the concept of competition and inequality between the kids even further. It is just like our system of "education" works - instead of teaching kids compassion, altruism, creativity and cooperation, it teaches children disgusting competition, mindless memorization of data and unquestionable obedience. This intellectually corrupt and judgmental way of education (anti-education) causes enormous psychological stress, which hinders any creativity or free thinking. It appears that wise wizard kingdom also failed to comprehend the basics of sustainable education and nutrition.
Hogwart? More like hogwash.
Quidditch Battle Royale
Of course, college genre must also include competitive games, ideally resembling football, so main protagonist is enrolled to participate in the game of quidditch. It seems to be some sort of wizard equivalent of rugby. All Hogwart's houses are coerced to compete against each other in a cruel and violent aerial show in front of cheering and entertained brainwashed students and teachers. Players brutally fight by kicking, hitting and pushing other players in order to score points. One of the participating children is badly hit by the ball, that he loses control over his broom, falls and hits the ground so strongly that he knocks himself out completely unconscious.
No surprise
I find it hard to accept that such movie (or book) is being so popular and widely disseminated all over the world as a great children's story. The book is even used in many schools as part of their must read literature curriculum.
It is not surprising though as we live in a society where everything seems to be the other way around. Where pseudoscience and primitive obsolete values prevail over what is considered rational and scientifically educated point of view. The society where what science defines sick and corrupt is considered normal and rewarded. Kids watch these kinds of movies (or read books) and think that is how the world should work.
(Alfie Kohn - Education And Competition)
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