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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folklore mindset: evaluating cultural items that are “told for true” in literary and cultural terms, independent of their truth value
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Replying to @literalbanana
I don't understand what "told for true" means here. This idea sounds Taleban.
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Replying to @vgr
it’s one way folklorists distinguish legends from fairytales - legends are told as if true, meant to be believed (like news stories)
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Replying to @literalbanana
Ah so "told for true" is a sort of term of art for an assumed folkloric consensus that everybody politely pretends to buy? No that does not sound nihilist to me. More like a sort of "don't think too much" faith.
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Replying to @vgr
it’s a term I got from a very old dead tree book that stuck in my head idk it makes sense to me
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You may want to read this post "the world as if" by my friend sarah. This is "living in the world as if this story told as true" which sounds like the opposite of nihilistic https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/09/07/the-world-as-if/ …
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