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I've been toying with viewing it as a storytelling - there's some stories that have been told so many times we know them like it's religious; and there's two big stories that get told a lot, and one is the man story and the other is the woman story

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The king story is one where he wears a crown, where he tells people what to do, where people try to kill him sometimes, where he's succeeded by his children. The story is defined by invisible rules of society - everyone agrees he should wear a crown, and tell people what to do.-

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This has a lot of overlap onto personality traits - maybe the king is vain, or commanding, or confident, or entitled. But those personality traits seem maybe like things that support or are an outgrowing of his role as king; traits that enable him to fulfill the story better.

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I guess this depends on what you mean by your question, but personality traits feel like building blocks to a story; they are (usually?) not the story itself, they are a means by which the story is brought to life

9:27 PM · Feb 11, 2020

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