What makes millions of people so much about sacrificing money and race to follow the Harry Potter series, that fictional character who plays the role of a silly storyteller of magic?
French researcher Jean-Marie tried to explore this in a lengthy article in the French newspaper The Nouvel Observateur. He looked at the hidden reasons why a man believes in fairy tales and is attracted to a strong attraction that sometimes forgets the link to real life.
Mary, the research director of the National Center for Scientific Research, was intrigued by what the Parisians had noticed from the crazy attachment to the famous Harry Potter series to wonder what it was like to be confined to narrow spaces (cinemas) Bad amid the noise of different voices?
The writer, who is also the director of studies at the School of Social Studies, says that this reminds him of the days of the Greek philosopher Plato when the writers of the era, such as Mayskillos, Sopoklisen and Aristophanes, fascinated the masses with their plays and fairy tales.
This excessive attachment to the cinematic scenes explained the ancient attachment to fiction by the human being, indicating that it reflected an instinctive human tendency to imagination and escape from reality, but at the same time stressed that the society in which imagination occupies the place of reason lives in a dangerous situation.
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Fictional inclination
The writer said that presenting these fictional stories to the viewer in such a way that he thinks it is true is precisely the place of danger, pointing out that we have been accustomed to believing in fairy tales since childhood, so that when we follow a movie we may forget it, remembering dinner time, just like the addiction of some video games and diving worlds. Virtual reality away from the world of truth replaced by ghosts in the form of images on the screen or on the pages of a book tells a fictional story.
He also says that this naïve tendency to believe in fairy tales has stuck to the person since childhood, and he, according to Plato and writer Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is one of the grandmothers' tales of their young children.
Today, according to the researcher, cinema and television have replaced grandmothers and made our children prone to fantasy, thus losing their connection with reality and reality. But this alone is not enough to explain the children's attachment to fantasy, if it is not accompanied by an instinctive willingness to accept fairy tales, which may enable fantasy to overwhelm human life so that it is difficult to distinguish between what is real and what is simply mirage.
Plato, like the imitators of the utopian city, points to the need to stay away from tradition and simulation to avoid falling into this imagination. Rousseau, through the Emile breeders, advises to stay away from books and anything that encourages imagination in children.
The author says that faith in fantasy is due to a set of formations and representations which is a machine for the production of beliefs, especially that the realization of the thing is part of his perception, and here tends to convert the things that are automatically told to a belief.
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Perception is a branch of perception
The writer struck an example that the amoeba is more primitive and its representations do not exceed those feelings that it feels when they move and result from the resistance of its movement, as well as the human being is not only the result of the other feelings that feel, although this is different when weakened relationship external motives, That is, its connection to the world of truth, and it becomes dependent on internal motives of the fabric of his imagination.
He believes that philosopher David Hume is better than he realized this interdependence, because just representing the thing makes it exist.
Hume says that when representations are strong, they are easy to believe and believe. Psychologists have recognized this and used it in their experiments to treat fear of open spaces.
In the last article, the researcher warned about the phenomenon of "pre-deception", which makes us feel brief moments when a monster suddenly appears on the screen or makes us nod with a nod as a plane moves on the screen before realizing that we were living in the fantasy world.