
The Science of Storytelling with Will Storr
Creative Rebels
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Human Rights in the West
In the east, shine a is seen as i polity we will admire. And of course, it's the opposite in in the west. Western individualism began in ancient greece. To get along and get ahead those fundamental things you had to be a hustler. So from that comes this veneration of the self. The olympics, an statues of idealized male and female forms in the market place. They look exactly like a men's health cover model. Its a story of narcissus,. where somebody falls in love with their reflection and dies of depression because when they realize they can't marry themselves.
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