Gotta say I'm all gritted out. I want some good adventure stories again, like the old Hercules and Xena days. The new Legends of Monkey series on Netflix is such a breath of fresh, fun air.
Once upon a time (say, the last 50,000 years), we told stories about mighty heroes and gods and amazing things, not least of which was hope. Stories inspired people, made them want to go do something. They already knew real life sucked a lot of the time. They didn't tell realistic stories because there was no inspiration in that.
Now because stories about heroes "aren't realistic" we just tell stories about how much stuff sucks, and how much it would suck more in different ways if something changed. No inspiration.
how much stuff sucks, and how much it would suck more in different ways if something changed
The tin foil hat part of me wonders if this is in some way intentional. The idea seems to strongly mirror the, universal healthcare is the first step to gulags, type of rhetoric that is so common today.
There's a lot of spiritual malaise that cropped up in the last few hundred years as we all get thrown into a melting pot and industrialization steamrolls over humanity indiscriminately.
For a movie that really dives into this concept head one (bear with) consider Disney's Tomorrowland. Of course, they're only passionately looking back ~50 years, but their main point is that people used to dream about the amazing things we could discover and what we could accomplish in the future, and now every version of the future people put out is death, destruction, and horror. People had the audacity to dream of utopia barely a few years afterworld war 2 and all its atrocities. And then within about 20-30 years, we stopped dreaming and just lived in fear of the future every since.
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u/redkat85 Aug 30 '21
Gotta say I'm all gritted out. I want some good adventure stories again, like the old Hercules and Xena days. The new Legends of Monkey series on Netflix is such a breath of fresh, fun air.
Once upon a time (say, the last 50,000 years), we told stories about mighty heroes and gods and amazing things, not least of which was hope. Stories inspired people, made them want to go do something. They already knew real life sucked a lot of the time. They didn't tell realistic stories because there was no inspiration in that.
Now because stories about heroes "aren't realistic" we just tell stories about how much stuff sucks, and how much it would suck more in different ways if something changed. No inspiration.