Brainstorm help. I’m collecting archetype paradoxes. Statements of the form, “Alice is X, but also f(not X)”
Where f(not X) is some sort of obfuscated yang to the X-yin.
Like “Alice is very bookish but likes to party late every weekend”
Help with more realistic ex’smples?
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Perhaps you could reverse it out from the Ayn Rand point about paradoxes just being false assumptions. What false assumptions do people make regularly? And then instantiate....
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Alice is introverted but also feels terribly lonely without people
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Alice spends her life programming computers but actively tries to remove the influence of technology from her life
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Mother Teresa was literally a saint, but also had constant doubts about her faith.
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David Brooks’s old Bobos In Paradise is a classic in this genre: Alice expresses her bohemian taste by creating a bourgeois lifestyle:
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with the "core" #archetypes you can easily get such paradoxes by mixing them, in fact my thesis is that if one can attach the opposing AT, it tends to create fascination that is especially lasting (e.g. "Madonna" name applied to a pop "Siren"/singer, brooding Hero<->Outlaw, etc.)
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Alice dedicates her life to the approval of others, but doesn't actually like other people
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