Oh yes, I remember that incident with the racism - an Indian family? Sadly it was similar to things that would happen when I was a child. Leicester is multicultural but the county has a long way to go.
Yet if the worst human evil has nothing to do with the war of Light and Dark, how seriously should we even take the latter?
Yes, exactly, this is my problem with so much of this style of fantasy where reality overlaps with magic. It can be applied so so many universes - Harry Potter for example. Why don't they help people with their magic instead of just standing by when WW2 happened? The Who style 'we can't interfere in the timeline' only works so many times. Of course the powerful wizards/Old Ones/whoever leaving at some point in the past and humans having to get on without magic is a trope dating practically from the Bible and probably before, and is used to explain how there can be gods that don't save us from awful things - but when 'the past' is the 1960s it's a bit problematic!
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Date: 2017-01-29 02:32 am (UTC)Yet if the worst human evil has nothing to do with the war of Light and Dark, how seriously should we even take the latter?
Yes, exactly, this is my problem with so much of this style of fantasy where reality overlaps with magic. It can be applied so so many universes - Harry Potter for example. Why don't they help people with their magic instead of just standing by when WW2 happened? The Who style 'we can't interfere in the timeline' only works so many times. Of course the powerful wizards/Old Ones/whoever leaving at some point in the past and humans having to get on without magic is a trope dating practically from the Bible and probably before, and is used to explain how there can be gods that don't save us from awful things - but when 'the past' is the 1960s it's a bit problematic!