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Bokbreath t1_j92rq32 wrote

Per Vonnegut
>researchers found there are “six core trajectories which form the building blocks of complex narratives”. These are: “rags to riches” (a story that follows a rise in happiness), “tragedy”, or “riches to rags” (one that follows a fall in happiness), “man in a hole” (fall–rise), “Icarus” (rise–fall), “Cinderella” (rise–fall–rise), and “Oedipus” (fall–rise–fall).

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foulbeastly t1_j92wah3 wrote

I remember in elementary school learning about kinds of conflict as well- man vs nature, man vs god, man vs man, and man vs self.

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Nice_Sun_7018 t1_j93de7d wrote

God creates dinosaurs, god destroys dinosaurs, god creates man, man destroys god, man creates dinosaurs, dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the earth

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brickmaster32000 t1_j93g4yd wrote

That is just a result of how you choose to catergorize things. I could also just as easily say that all stories fall into only two categories, stories about hippos and stories that arent about hippos.

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Bokbreath t1_j93i3uz wrote

You can - and that would also be correct. Whether it is useful to anyone is another question

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leonidganzha t1_j92xjm4 wrote

If you take a group of objects and look for similarities, you will find similarities. If you will look for uniqueness, you will find uniqueness. The same applies to stories.

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DafnissM t1_j92z5ku wrote

I like the idea that every story has been told, but it’s how you tell the story that will make you stand out

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gnatsaredancing t1_j92tsx0 wrote

We're all the same species. We effectively evolved the same baseline for survival. The same driving forces, the same fears, the same fight/flight/freeze response to danger.

The only thing that varies are the outside forces that act on us like culture and environment.

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InterestingLong9133 t1_j9374qo wrote

Hundreds of millions of possible stories is a pretty good amount, especially when you account for all the different ways each of them can be told.

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foulbeastly t1_j92w51i wrote

The timelessness and commonality of the human experience can be disheartening and, also, profoundly beautiful. I think it can be chalked up to the fact that after all, we are still animals.

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MasqueOfNight t1_j932jmv wrote

Because we're all fragments of a singular universal consciousness. The sleeping mind remembers what the waking mind forgets.

We are all. All are one.

Or, something like that. You'll know it when you see it.

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oopsy-daisy6837 t1_j938ued wrote

Our capacity for reason should make us less predictable, but everything we do is relative.

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brickmaster32000 t1_j93fw5t wrote

Chess has only 6 types of pieces with absolutely no variations among the same pieces. Each piece has only ever has a limited number of possible paths, 27 at max but on average only 11. Yet after only 5 turns for both players there are 69,352,859,712,417 possible outcomes.

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CrazyCatLady108 t1_j93gl2b wrote

Discussion is the goal

Do not post shallow content. All posts must be directly book related, informative, and discussion focused

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LegalCrook OP t1_j952vp9 wrote

Ray Dalio, Principles for a changing world order. Definitely discussion related

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Low-Persimmon-9893 t1_j92v3tq wrote

humans are just big,overly glorified apes: once you know how apes works then you've pretty much got humans down too because there is little difference between a human and a chimp right down to basic instincts such as tribalism and idol worship.

everything humans do is because of some primal instinct that humanity hasn't evolved past.

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