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The Evolution of the Hero
A lot of what we've done in our in our Joker series. So examine these these feedback loops as Brett mentioned between between fiction and history whether it's in literature or film. We can trace these things back I suspect their history almost almost indefinitely but but definitely holding coffee old and catcher the ride. The idea of social alienation and or even trauma being central to ones heroes journey or what makes something someone interesting as a person say a lot about the trajectory of culture engineering with regard to deep politics and to the manufacturing of culture. And then again that is why so many forms of pop culture rebellion are ineffective because we're embracing the same ideas of apotheosis of achievement Godhood.