The creation of demons or Bad Guys is a crucial ability in story telling. If you're bad at it you'll create terrible 2 dimensional characters. Your life will be lower fidelity and also feel repetitive with an Evil Baddy of the Week plot structure.
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Another downside of repressing anger is that you have to constantly create a "Fair World" in order to have an excuse to not be angry. E.g. "well those baddies are fire breathing dragon demons, I can't do anything about that can I." or "she deserved it"
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Just like no successful utopia has ever been written, this "fair world" imperative starts manifesting a utopia-skinned dystopia.
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Modern day communication is an evolutionary wonder that started off from "battle to the death if you look at me wrong." to our now global world. It's due to the understanding of fire's intensity that we've created language and communication protocols that run the world today.
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If society, woven from these protocols feels dense and stubborn and stifling it's because they were crucibles. They held in intense fire without breaking. They were catalysts of purification.
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Business for example is not a cold lifeless boring thing. Yet it's cold and lifeless but it's also literally holding the world together. Have you seen what we people are like without business? I remember our history books. We can get reallllyyyy mean.
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When the world gets rid of these crucibles, deeming them unnecessary, it gets rid of the only way to capture wildfire. E.g. slapping a future school shooter in the face with a Jordan Peterson could put the student on a totally different non-tragic path in life.
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As children, many we get punished so hard for even the slightest bit of anger that we disown our anger completely.
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This results in misshapen emotional bodies. You end up incredibly strong at creating demons as a compensation for not being able to deal with anger. Great for a dramatic life full of good vs evil but terrible for becoming friends with the other "demons".
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