1050 sats \ 2 replies \ @SilkyNinja 29 Apr \ on: Are you giving off “main character energy”? bitcoin_beginners
If Bitcoin is very important to you, you might want to think of your “life story” as a science fiction. Science fiction has certain “genre rules”, as do all genres. Science fiction, more expressly than fantasy, emphasizes social slavery (pretty beautiful when you remark on that alongside Bitcoin values); fantasy is more about individual liberation.
Some interesting notes flipping through the chapter “Science Fiction” in Anatomy of Genre by John Truby:
- SF is about social systems. All social systems have elements of freedom and imprisonment, so the story isn’t about a free system vs an enslaving system, but all social systems have elements of both.
- SF says the most profound choices we make are influenced by the technology we have invented
- The best SF writers compare, in detail, the opponent’s vision of the future with the hero’s vision
- Like Fantasy, there are symbolic/allegorical relations between the hero’s internal state/character and the visual/physical world. In SF, “often the hero’s weaknesses turn on what it means to be human” and “stories connect the hero’s lack of evolution with the planet’s lack of evolution.”
Thanks for sharing this novel perspective. I like how the protagonist needs to manage his weakness to navigate an imperfect world. Sounds about right!
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I think that's the general rule of thumb for all stories - and so, possibly, for life :)
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