242. Jonathan Gottschall — The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears Them Down
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Hero's Journey
conspiracy theories sound the call to adventure to every individual believer. You are sucked into the story, ike a vr event like i choose your own adventure story and you become the hero of the story. The narrative also gives peoplesome people, something that they really, really need. They get an enormous amount of meaning from it. And what i've noticed in recent years is that people really resist when you try to take their villains away,.You are leaving them bereft of so much meaning. It's very hard to give this up. There's so much community involved in it. This isn't just about conspiracors - we can all be heroes ourselves if we put our minds to
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