Val, do you know of any lists of good mythic mode roles that a person could inhabit?
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I’ve often strongly desired an alternative version of TVTropes which could be called RealityTropes. Much of what you’re referring to above would be on that webpage.
Within the mythic mode framework, the hero’s journey is a known living story and role. It exists in both mythic mode and fiction, but not all roles that exist in fiction actually exist in mythic mode and not all that exist in mythic mode exist in fiction. (Or easily accessible fiction.) Much or maybe even most of TVTropes.com wouldn’t exist on RealityTropes.com
History books, honest documentaries, mythology, and religious texts would give more access to mythic mode roles and RealityTropes information.
I still want a better and drastically more complete list though. And I especially want a proper real list of the life paths and patterns of reality that exist which people can be living inside of or end up living in the future. Good and bad.
Requiem for a Dream is a cautionary tale of the dark and horrifying path that taking drugs can lead someone down. It’s fiction and obviously embellished, but the truth that can be found in it seems extremely valuable for someone who might consider that lifestyle. How many possible real-life failure-modes like that really exist? It would be really nice to get a list of them to look at and double check every once in a while instead of having to become a better and better rationalist just to fight back against the tide.
Val, do you know of any lists of good mythic mode roles that a person could inhabit?
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Also:
I’ve often strongly desired an alternative version of TVTropes which could be called RealityTropes. Much of what you’re referring to above would be on that webpage.
Within the mythic mode framework, the hero’s journey is a known living story and role. It exists in both mythic mode and fiction, but not all roles that exist in fiction actually exist in mythic mode and not all that exist in mythic mode exist in fiction. (Or easily accessible fiction.) Much or maybe even most of TVTropes.com wouldn’t exist on RealityTropes.com
History books, honest documentaries, mythology, and religious texts would give more access to mythic mode roles and RealityTropes information.
I still want a better and drastically more complete list though. And I especially want a proper real list of the life paths and patterns of reality that exist which people can be living inside of or end up living in the future. Good and bad.
Requiem for a Dream is a cautionary tale of the dark and horrifying path that taking drugs can lead someone down. It’s fiction and obviously embellished, but the truth that can be found in it seems extremely valuable for someone who might consider that lifestyle. How many possible real-life failure-modes like that really exist? It would be really nice to get a list of them to look at and double check every once in a while instead of having to become a better and better rationalist just to fight back against the tide.
Archetypes are good (Caroline Myss is one author), trickster makes this world, and spiral dynamics are three places to look for modes of thinking.