Is “folklore mindset” nihilist if you believe that stories are valuable, but are still trying to figure out what stories are for?
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Is that in reference to participating in "told for true" stories themselves, or to taking an ethnomethodologically emic stance toward said "told for true" items. The former seems non-nihilistic. The latter maybe non-nihilistic at a meta-level, and mostly pragmatic at story level
I could answer that better if I felt like it was an available option to not participate in them!
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Sure it is. When foreigners intrude on a local told-for-true culture, they easily switch to explaining it in more explicitly symbolic/fictional terms. The suspension of disbelief is shallow and kinda instrumental. Like Huizenga’s play.
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so the goal is to become a universal foreigner
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