People outsmart themselves about this topic all the time People are yelling at me about saying that stories aren't evidence about the psychology of the people who create and consume them and the culture they come from I'm not talking about thathttps://twitter.com/BossKingKakuzan/status/1338671589177614338 …
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My fucking teacher apparently had his view of "the occult" heavily shaped by this classic spooky story a British dude wrote as fictional entertainment I knew someone who said her mom actually had some kind of religious revival from watching the Mel Gibson movie Signs
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This particular idea might trace its way back to Émile Zola's idea of fiction as "a laboratory for human behaviour," and like many tenets of 19th C. realism, has become so deeply imbedded that it seems impossible to question despite being less than 200 years old.
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