I have to strongly disagree with you.
Actually, I think that the mindset you represent is the primary reason the western civilization will eventually collapse. It's an approach driven by pure rationality and completely blind to anything that is outside of this realm.
What J. K. Rowling successfully did is tap into essential archetypes - something children can relate to without any prior knowledge. Juxtaposing this with "rational and scientifically educated point of view" does not make any sense.
Well if logic and scientific method don't make sense to you then it is pointless to have a debate with you :-) Logic is fundamental for coherent conversation.
About archetypes. There is no such thing. It is also obsolete idea created by philosophers who knew little about human behaviour. No one is born with some innate information about the world.
If these children can tap into it,bit is because they have been already conditioned with such information before from the environment (since birth).
And people like Carl Jung are obsolete. Sure.
Your ignorance is quite ridiculous. Thus further discussion is pointless.
It's quite amazing what you did: emphasize the importance of scientific approach and then demonstrate a fundamental lack of understanding of human achievements in this area.
Did I say that Jung is obsolete (besides that a person cannot be obsolete). I was talking about archetype. You have just used logical fallacy.
"It's quite amazing what you did: emphasize the importance of scientific approach and then demonstrate a fundamental lack of understanding of human achievements in this area"
And yet another logical fallacy called strawman fallacy.
Besides Jung was psychiatrist not a scientist. Jung ideas are 100 years old just like Freud and most of them are considered pseudoscience or philosophy rather something based on scientific research with use of scientific method. As much as they pioneered in some psychoanalytical research, their ideas were fantasies with no backing in any evidence which anyone with minimum knowledge about science of human behaviour knows about (human behavioral biology and evolution, genetics, neuroscience, epigenetics etc). Just because they thought it is true does not make it so. People also believed that Earth is flat and it did not make it so.
It seems that regardless of inability to have intelligent conversation (without logical fallacies), you also have no clue about discoveries in science of human behaviour since Jung.
"Thus further discussion is pointless"
Yes, you accurately repeated my observation.
I must say you know nothing.