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[ SECRET POST #1000β ]
⌈ Secret Post #1000β ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Notes:
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Hamlet is fantastic.
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Humans are instinctive storytellers. So much of our lives revolve around it. Religion is an extension of storytelling. Burials are an extension of storytelling. Cave paintings are an extension of storytelling. It's the instinct that tells us "events we cannot experience ourselves have meaning." We are deeply emotionally affected by history and religion -- by all stories, whether they are fact or fiction. If you drop an old pot, your heart will race because even if you don't know whose it was or where it came from, you still know that it came from somewhere, it was made and owned by someone, and these things are important. They teach us to be wise, and more, they teach us to SURVIVE.
The study of memetics teaches why stories are important. They live in us, are as deeply ingrained as our genes. We need stories to have stay-alive practice. To have LIFE practice. As children, stories teach us fear without putting us in any real danger. They also teach us joy, humor, love, pursuing goals, patience, the full range of vice and virtue, and rituals... rituals like flirting, threatening, showing respect, being coy, being bold, being grateful... all these things we need in order to function in society, to get along with other people. Our stories are SUPPOSED to affect us deeply. That is what they are for -- to show us how to act and how to feel. Everyone is affected this way by some stories, and everyone tells stories.
I was recently fascinated to see that my daughter, who just turned 2, has started to play in ways I can recognize as storytelling. She cannot really talk yet -- she cannot pronounce or understand 99% of her own native language. But she can tell stories. She doesn't do it with words -- she does it with actions. I watch her play with her little animal figures and I can see them. Through actions alone, she makes them express affection, aggression, intentions, and her stories are violent. I watch her play and see her have a dinosaur and a cheetah trap a baby moose in a dungeon. Then I think they might have killed him, and put him in a treestump. Then the moose's friend came to rescue him and the dinosaur and cheetah chased him, and they fought, and leaped through an opening in the top of a tree, and fell... and later, she had a zebra and another dinosaur and as I watched her, it looked like they fought, and there was a fox who was hurt or killed, and then the dinosaur ran down the side of the bed and she had the zebra chase him and she yelled "Weygoi!" Her mother and I looked at her, wondering what she meant, and she said it again. "Weygoi! COME BACK!" ...where are you going? She was storytelling about violence, confusion, need, want, empathy... it was incredible.
We are hard-wired to value our stories. Not everyone is affected by every story in the same way, but that is also part of our survival ability -- infinite variety, and infinite possibility. A story that touches you may not touch me, and vice versa.
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