Shannon Clark on Nostr: I have a thesis that a lot of people take the wrong lessons from fiction (across all ...

I have a thesis that a lot of people take the wrong lessons from fiction (across all mediums) and specifically a few things.

1) that the best (craftsmen’s, artists, writers, philosophers etc) are long dead and unmatched by current …

2) that the hero always wins in the end (and related that the heroes are the most important - and we’re all the heroes) stories of complexity without heroes of villains are far too rare.

3) that hidden secrets exist and represent true power