This is a wonderfully insightful essay by detailing the problems with this season of Game of Thrones (worth a read even if you don't watch the show). blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/t
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I've always considered the emphasis on what I now call empathy-driven narratives (at the expense of everything else) to be a major problem with storytelling these days.
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Another essay, not directly about GOT, but deals with the issues of empathy in narratives by
nybooks.com/daily/2019/03/
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Early on the show provided a 'neutral' institutional framework identifiably commensurate with their own petit- bourgeois lives as little kings and queens inflating their egos without the expense of any genuine moral considerations.
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a fictionalized version of 'Survivor" antithetical to empathetic melodrama of television faire, but including the usual 'revenge outside the law', 'rogue cop gets justice' themes that are so popular.
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