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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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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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