You may have just been going with your intuitive understanding of a cartoon cut-out, but I think you nailed it, nonetheless. It was Rousseau-esque. I can certainly confirm that much of the attitude you talk about with regards to magic and reality is very much evident among real hunter-gatherer groups today. It’s a way of thinking I try to keep to, but it’s extremely difficult. I find it more difficult when dealing with writing, and I can’t help but think of David Abram’s Spell of the Sensuous here, that we’re so trapped in the magic of writing that we’ve forgotten that there’s any other kind of magic in the world.

For those who disagree: How ‘real’ is the internet? Where on the spectrum of real/not real does it lie? The same question for “television” or “radio”.