not to be melodramatic but i think we've been deeply failed by our stories in a really fundamental way. hardly any stories explore what to me are the real sources of conflict. almost nothing gets past "identify and beat up the bad guy" as the primary conflict resolution strategy
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can't think off the top of my head of any popular stories that explore how fucked up things can get in a group of people all of whom are trying to do the right thing and care for each other
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idk "popular" - except within the kind of groups that have hour-long discussions about what DevOps means - but The Phoenix Project and The Unicorn Project are enough this (in the specific context of IT+corporate culture) that I had to set them aside for hitting too close to home
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No, THERE ARE FIVE LIGHTS, see? 💡💡💡💡
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Tangentially, in a lot of series, actions also don't really have consequences.
"Oh we did a little genocide, but now we are sorry, so everything is Gucci again. 🥺"
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