A valuable passage from the article: "We love the sensation of righteous indignation and the satisfying payoff of justice delivered. As the literary scholar No

A valuable passage from the article: "We love the sensation of righteous indignation and the satisfying payoff of justice delivered. As the literary scholar Northrop Frye points out in The Anatomy of Criticism[1], “In the melodrama of the brutal thriller we come as close as it’s normally possible for art to come to the pure self-righteousness of the lynching mob.” And studies back this up: people get more satisfaction out of stories in which offenders are punished rather than forgiven. The unstoppable moralism of stories has a big upside for within-group bonding. But the universal grammar of stories can also be paranoid and vindictive. Stories show us problem-drenched worlds and encourage us to turn on the people who are lousing things up. In other words, to proliferate narratives is to proliferate villains. To proliferate villains is also to proliferate rage, judgment, and division." [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomy_of_Criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomy_of_Criticism