TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoWhy do we love stories so?message-squaremessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up147arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up142arrow-down1message-squareWhy do we love stories so?TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square18fedilinkfile-text
Whether it be movies, books, oral tradition. What is it we humans love so much about fictional tales?
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 days agoNah, modeling is something that has to be learned. Making up stories is much more natural and our usual first response. Even really basic things have, at times, been attributed to the lives and mechanations of spirits.
minus-squareZombiepirate@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoThink about how you consider your life: do you think of it as a model? Or a story?
I thought that was models?
Nah, modeling is something that has to be learned. Making up stories is much more natural and our usual first response. Even really basic things have, at times, been attributed to the lives and mechanations of spirits.
Think about how you consider your life: do you think of it as a model? Or a story?