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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i guess i didn’t communicate well that i’m explicitly thinking of stuff that has a huge amount of cultural penetration; stuff that is arguably foundational in a cultural way. star wars, harry potter, game of thrones, MCU, that kind of thing