If you’re not ignorant and gullible enough you don’t get better sheephttps://twitter.com/devonzuegel/status/1057232331222577152 …
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In fairy tales it’s often the ignorant/gullible (“simple”) character who wins, rather than the clever one
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It is also a persistent motif in modern US fairytales (Superman, Avengers etc.). The smart are deemed to be incapable of the piety of goodness, which seems to translate into a meekness that is required to make society work. Some tales may be meant to indoctrinate the peasants?
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that’s possible but my prior for “people enjoy it” is higher than for “conspiracy of powerful people made it that way”
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