41 - Gregg Hurwitz - Patterns in Politics and Storytelling
The Symbolic World
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Is There a Limitation of the World?
Batman can be as close to perfect as a human can get without magic skills but with sheer discipline and sheer willpower in part because he has no intimacy. The ones who have intimacy it's a recognition of the limitations of the world right I always think of it like when I had kids the way I thought it was that my the surface area of my vulnerability increased right and you can't protect it all. If you want to have a wife and dogs and kids things are gonna get interrupted you have to widen out more into fullness with intimacy and perfection in some ways takes a laser focus so it's very interested for me.
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