was the experience of encountering characters in art and stories that you relate to, whose lives resemble your life, remotely common until recently?
do you think maybe it's possible this is changing for everyone and there's just less identification, or maybe that people just identify less as they get older and we're all ancients now
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no i was thinking like "did the equivalent of the middle class in the roman empire have depictions of fictional lives available to them that were similar enough to compare their own lives to, or have expectations about their own lives based on"
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Oh woh I bet so "I wanna be Achilles!" etc People like identifying with their archetypes
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