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 Originally Posted by wufwugy
It's probably that our love for literary drama comes from the same place that religious stories did. It's also probably we have lost nearly all of the substance literature once had. Today we watch heroes, superheroes, meta-heroes, and even gods crack jokes and swing hammers on a big screen. We used to instead listen to or read about lessons that make for survival fitness by the same kind of heroes.
I think as a rule we have basically a limited number of stories to tell as humans, and we just dress them up in different ways. The archetypes and themes are always the same half-dozen or so that we learned in high school (man vs. man, man vs. nature, boy meets girl, etc.). I think the reason the stories seem less powerful as you get older is that it eventually dawns on you that you're hearing the same basic story for the umpteenth time. I don't think it makes any difference if you hear it on the radio, around a campfire, or see it on TV.
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