There’s a family of interesting related arguments: “You are not enough people” (Vonnegut theory of marital conflict) “Reality has a surprising amount of detail” (John Salvatier theory of physical reality) “Everything is harder than it looks” (David Wong theory of effort shock)
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Overloading Wong’s notion of effort shock, and his reference to training montages, each of these hopes is a sort of montage shock. In a movie, the shocking part would be a wishful montage sequence. The grind turns to 5 minutes of fun set to music.
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It’s a basic trick of narrative engineering: validate false hopes by obscuring entirely reasonable hard parts with musical montages. I don’t know what to do with this generalization. This is the entirely reasonable ineffectiveness of mere tweeting.
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Vaguely rhyming principle: reality is far less sexy than aesthetes hope. Conceptual fantasy art is dripping with 10x more sexiness than reality.
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