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A test occurred to me: if a situation is genuinely new, it doesn’t pattern match well to old stories so they are not retold for it. So you get more of what looks like nostalgic reboots and retellings and fewer stories about right now. Consistent with what we have going on now.
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Stories that are obviously about contemporary events are surprisingly few right now and not that great. The Bots, Don’t Look Up… Circumstantial but interesting.
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“Global collapse” is something that has basically never happened. At best there are distant historical memories of continent-scale collapses. So any pattern match should be bad and any pattern match to living memory should be extra bad.
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But as pattern matching and producing addicts we turn our attention to nostalgic reboots and escapism instead and total volume of storytelling stats on trend. So the test is dip in relative proportion of stories that feel like they speak squarely to current situations.
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Specific example: US Presidents were portrayed with a certain conventional tropey gravitas for decades by Morgan Freeman or Martin Sheen types. That’s continued unchanged! I haven’t seen a Trumpy president in a movie yet.
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