...when really what we should be aiming for is unlocking something more like this:
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if you're not familiar w the 2nd group, I offer that you should watch the original Toy Story...one of the most powerful imaginal works of film
these mutant toys are the result of the sadistic teenager Sid's experiments, and are generally unsettling at first
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they are made out at first to be truly unsettling... 'cannibals' as Buzz calls them, watching them take two toys away:
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later (and sorry for quality of this, couldn't find better) we learn that they aren't cannibals, and in fact are all deeply empathetic & highly skilled @ taking care of each other
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now, back to 's original tweet twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/
the hero narrative / metaphor implies a threat...and also implies solving issues through violence & some type of coercion...that there is something that needs to be conquered
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"hero" may not even be the right metaphor/narrative
often implies a kind of big threat or something
maybe we need stories of a shared journey
or stories of becoming something together
or new stories—what if there were a whole bunch of archetypes *in* knowledge-work?
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the mutant toy narrative / metaphor implies a community of care and mutual aid, understanding what each other can offer in their current state, patching each other up when we are wounded, or uncover old wounds
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This idea also resonates w one of my favorite articles from the past few years, about when & why good guys / bad guys entered folk stories:
aeon.co/essays/why-is-
I recommend this to everyone (& think you'll esp get a lot from this if you haven't read)
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this article describes how in the late 1700s, folk tales started being used to promote a sense of nationalistic morals, with the aim of building national identities...and a sense of 'other'
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the author goes on to offer what this shift in storytelling is good for (social stability and military recruitment) and not so good for (introducing the importance of moral deliberation, and considering deeper meanings of the human condition)
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Once again spinning back to Malcolm's questioning of the hero narrative, for the last ~250 years or so, the hero narrative has been a divisive one, promoting 'othering'...& salvation through the 'us' conquering the 'them'
so what now, when those lines are so blurred?
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this scene from MHA season 4 contains, no joke, my favorite vision of what a hero is. to me it's "a hero is someone who makes people smile"
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Thanks for sharing! I love this framing of hero
Also this is my first time hearing about MHA- looks pretty great
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Somewhat related, this video re-sparked my intermittent desire to get a group together & watch the original FLCL
Feeling like it’d be a particularly fun one among the parts / imaginal work crowd
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