was the experience of encountering characters in art and stories that you relate to, whose lives resemble your life, remotely common until recently?
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Replying to @Tipsycaek
Are you thinking this is a society thing or just a cohort thing
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Replying to @Tipsycaek
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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Replying to @eigenrobot
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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Replying to @Tipsycaek
Oh woh I bet so "I wanna be Achilles!" etc People like identifying with their archetypes
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Replying to @eigenrobot
but what about like "i'm gonna have a nuclear family in the suburbs and we're gonna get our kid a car when they're 16 and we're gonna go to disney land once a year"
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except realistically probably more like the Glass family welp
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