Value Of Magic, Is it still exist ?

Do you think in these days the value of magic is still exist ?

Before we go on, what do you think is the value of magic ? 

For me the value of magic is the feeling created when we see magic happens in front of our eyes,

It's the amazement when we see magic. No matter "how" the tricks is done.

Let's take a look first at the world of magic today. It's so many "free" magic stuff out there for us to learn, especially for new people started in magic. 

From one point it's great which means world of magic is evolving, but from others it's a degradation.

With so many "free" stuff out there, there are many magicians (I'm talking about newly started magicians, maybe amateur too), don't value the magic.

You may ask newly started magicians, "where do you learn your stuff ?". I believe it's hard to find a person who learns magic from Tarbell, Royal Road to Card Magic, Card College. Most of the answer (maybe) from internet or from their friend.

How many magicians concern about the history of magic ? Or perhaps you can ask yourself (I asked myself too) how good is your knowledge and do you care learning them ?

If the answer still no or still a little, perhaps we have a homework to do. 

Learning from that all "free" stuff, the newly started magicians only value the trick. All they want is best trick, easy/self working magic with high impact. 

Why is that happening ? 

From my experience in many magician's society (maybe different from yours), I've found that New magicians probably don't understand about what magic really is, they only learn what they think is the magic, they even don't know about the ethics (They claim others' routine as theirs), and they also want to be a big shot a person with best trick. 

They think magic is instant, learn easy trick and expect to amaze their friend with that. We know we need a lot more than that. 

With this kind of attitude, Laymen (I prefer muggle term thou lol) probably will see it only as a trick and it will make them curious how's it done. 

My friend said to me "If you don't believe the magic yourself, how could you deliver that magic to your audience ?"

Now let's take a look at the value of magic itself. 

In my opinion, the entertainment value has the biggest portion in magic.

Let's take a look at David Copperfield  when he performed Crazyman handcuffs. Do you think it's a difficult trick? It's simple stuff, but see how he packaged the trick. Since then so many magicians use that trick. Another example see how he packaged his "Grandfather Aces". It's only a McDonald Aces, but see the entertainment value and the audience amazement. 

Other example, how the Professor Dai Vernon amazed so many people with his Cups And Balls Routine or so many street performers and close up magicians out there. 

Magic is not all about trick. So many stuff go with it and those what are make the magic is magical. 

There are so many rooms for improvement. Why don't we start ?