In a split window on your second monitor, Tyler Cowen is giving a TEDx talk. He says, "Every time you're telling yourself a good vs evil story, you're basically lowering your IQ by ten points." There are only a few such grand stories, he says — seven, or maybe a dozen. Monster. Rags to riches. Quest. In fact: "There's the old saying," Tyler says, "just about every story can be summed up as, 'A stranger came to town.'" If you limit yourself to those simple structures, he says, you lose most of the world's richness. Also your brainpower, apparently.
"Are you even supposed to like a story? What are you supposed to do with a story? Reach conclusions? It's not like you can take those with you, either."
That hits a little close to home. On a variety of resonant levels. Very compelling, poetic prose!
Wow, that was a compelling read.
"Are you even supposed to like a story? What are you supposed to do with a story? Reach conclusions? It's not like you can take those with you, either."
mission-oriented till the very end
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