• 5too@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Stories don’t need to be told, humans need to tell stories. That’s what makes us human, and is how we spread ideas like honor, justice, and even civilization itself.

    Hero stories reinforce all of these ideas, and others besides.

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      2 months ago

      Hero stories reinforce that “honour, justice and even civilisation itself” (as a placeholder for vaguely progressive ideas) would need to be installed by powerful individuals aka Great Man theory fiction.

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        That’s not what I’ve seen. The stories I’m familiar with usually involve defending those things where they already exist, not establishing them. Even in cases where that needs established, as often as not, they’re usually protecting someone else who embodies that ideal.

        I’m sure there are stories similar to what you’ve described, but I don’t see that in the stories I’m familiar with.