In our modern internet era, Willy Wonka is known best as a masterful meme maestro at smoothly sarcastic satire directed at hypocritical positions and questionable claims. I'm sure most, if not all, of this blog's readers know
exactly what I'm talking about there.
But decades before the inventions of Al Gore enabled this very blog to become
reality, Willy Wonka sang about a world of pure
imagination, and beckoned us into it with his charismatic mannerisms and his delightful candies and chocolates. Ah, but Charlie's Chocolate Factory was much like Charlotte's witch's barrier - Filled with delicious goodies, but also fantastical horrors that could harm children. Willy Wonka brought five such children into such a world, where all but one of them was victimized, albeit arguably by their own poor judgement. Remind you of a certain magical girl familiar? You could even consider Willy Wonka to be a proto-Kyubey!
This is one of the more fascinatingly fearsome forms of
magic - The form of a double-edged sword that can slice
miracles out of cold materialistic steel, but also slice
chunks of flesh out of those who don't wield the sword with picture-perfect precision.
