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The US has a culture war aspect of this going. Every “diverse” story is automatically storyworthy by fiat for the left, and every rustbelt hillbilly story is automatically storyworthy by fiat on the right. The result is the dullest stories all around.
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Reminds me of a Schankian story I was an AI grad student at a DARPA workshop in FL My hotel check-in line was long, because the guy at the head of the line was shouting "Do you know who I am?". I had never heard anyone do that for real It was my advisor's advisor Roger Schank
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“Your life story is both unique and good. But the part that’s unique is not good, and the part that’s good is not unique.”
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My life so far has about 5 storyworthy days in it by own standards of interestingness. Assuming average competence at extracting and telling. I suspect I’m somewhat under par. Most people have more material to work with.
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I actually unironically like stories that aggregate vast numbers of individual stories into mass streams. Very few stories fo that. Most pick out and center a special story.
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Relatedly, I really dislike “story” journalism that tries to pick out a human interest through-line to make big stories relatable.
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I think this is a misconception. The story is some emergent mix of mythologized history, oral traditions, and retconned additions by hundreds of contributors. The Gita was a late addition put in to take advantage of the raw material. Good stories tend to precede philosophy.
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Some philosopher probably thought the story would be a good vehicle for Upanishad philosophy and composed the Gita to insert, in the process packaging the whole as a finished epic
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